Cut Draft of Song 38/39

So Jorge recently posted a video showing a cut version of Odysseus where Antinous survived and attacked Odysseus, managing to subdue him and nearly beat him to death, before Telemachus arrived and saved Odysseus from Antinous.

What do y’all think of this? Do you think it was a good choice to cut it? Personally, while what we have now is more accurate to the Odyssey, I would have liked Antinous to be more of a presence in Song 38. It also would have been nice for Telemachus to get his rematch and get a hero moment, rather than being kinda a liability in the current version.