To casual/non fans, I’ve found myself saying “The Original Star Wars” to differentiate the film from the franchise. It always sounded weird to call it “A New Hope,” even though the crawl seems incomplete to me without it (probably since it was already added when I first saw it as a child).
Top of my personal list would be removing BB8 incapacitating a guard via a barrage of coins, along with the setup of him being loaded with coins. Those two shots bother me more than Leah Poppins. May be a non-issue depending on how much the whole Canto Bight sequence is trimmed.
How do people here feel about Rey’s voice over during the “mirror” sequence? I love the shot visually, but verbal narration feels wrong in Star Wars. Of course when it cuts, we’re shown she was explaining it to Kylo… but it feels to me like it the filmmakers thought the meaning of the sequence wasn’t clear and ADR’d the beginning of her story in as a way to cover it. I think you could just cut from the end of the mirror to the hut and the line “I never felt so alone…” (or whatever it was).