the 12 episodes were organized into four “arcs” which are three episodes each. So this may be a very similar feel going forward, where episodes 4 and 5 are a build up following him at a later point (not picking up right after episode 3), with episode 6 being a climactic end of the second story arc this season. The Clone Wars animated series was similar with 3-4 episode arcs. Allows better story telling and not just rushing to get to action. Honestly if you look at the three acts of Rogue One it’s very similar with the third act being amazing, because of the story build up in the first two acts.

If that’s the case, they handled this perfectly - dropping the first arc all at once to get us used to the idea of episodes building up, before the weekly episode cadence where we’ll need to be patient with one episode per week.