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I think that might have been a cost-related issue. The way the fight was structured it's entirely possible Natalia Tena did all her own moves, since the fight doesn't involve any real stunts - there are no flips or falls, she mostly just shifts back and forth while doing the throwing motions - and the actual knife-in-air effects were surely added in post. If so, that means they would have avoided the considerable expense of putting a stuntwoman into Twi'lek prosthetics in order to shoot that. Prosthetics are a surprisingly expensive aspect of makeup, in part because they have to be essentially completely remade for each shooting day compared to a suit or mask that can be reused, so there's a tendency to try to minimize them.
They could still have given them a slightly longer fight. Even if only 30~60 sec. No need for super complex choreography, just a few extra moves to make it more exciting.