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It's more of a refinement thing, where anything not absolutely necessary is removed, or 3D printed straight into the structure of the thing instead of added to the side.
I’m sure there is also a lot of diagnostic equipment that became superfluous or redundant once they figured out how the engine ran.
I think this happened mostly between Raptor 1 and 2