I can't find any actual statement from Kevin Feige about the final three episodes being an hour each, however I did note that it went from six episodes to nine, but the overall run time of 6 hours remained the same...
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and with the covid shutdown and extended hiatus between shooting the final episodes it would make sense to me as they approached the January 15th drop date, in order to complete the sound mixing and visual effects, they may have re-cut the first 3 hours....
... to buy themselves the time they needed to finish the post-production on the final three episodes. They probably got it as down to the wire as they could and frankly airing the first two episodes together was very smart.
and even if it wasn't originally creative decision but a production decision, creatively it works very well because it's only after episode four that we start inner cutting between the sitcom world of the anomaly and the SWORD base outside.
We were completely immersed in the sitcom pastiches just long enough before episode 4 shows us what's been happening simultaneously in parallel to what we've been seeing. To me it seems like they made incredibly smart choices. YMMV.
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