I agree that a lot of the dialogue was poorly written and that the film could have been edited much better. LucasFilm should have hired Hal9000 as an editor.
Only if I could go back in time to do it. Aside from being 12 years old at the time, I would have been a terrible editor. It’s only after steeping myself in the fan editing done by others over the course of years that I approached AOTC ready to actually do something good.