If you're making a well-paced story, you'll inevitably have to cut stuff, and sometimes it's awesome stuff and it really hurts to cut it! There's tons of stuff I've cut from Errant, like originally chapter 1 started really differently, there were about 5 drafts of the story where we started with a news reporter and immediately jumped to Rekki being cool.
This is from draft 5 of the script (current draft is.... draft 8 ). Please forgive some of the grammar, my scripts are banged out for my own personal use so... haha yeah...
This was cut entirely. We now go straight to Subo because it sets him up for a proper character arc and allows the reader to look at Rekki more objectively and question whether she's good or bad rather than immediately presenting her in this heroic, selfless context. Having her less immediately keen for everyone to address her so casually was also something I wanted to change because it makes her a bit too nice and undermines one of her core character flaws; Rekki kinda likes being important.
I will use the framing of a news report later, because Errant does this kind of thing regularly, framing stuff through the context of magazine headlines or online discourse to give the context of how the people of that world see it, so it's not "wasted", it just wasn't the best tool for telling that scene at the time.
Keep your scrapped drafts and use them like a Warhammer model enthusiast uses their "Bitz Box"; sometimes that spare arm or sword or skull is going to enhance another model or decorate a base. It might be in a completely different project, because after all, Rekki and Subo were originally side characters in a story idea from my teens. The story was boring, but those two characters were so great I wanted to make a comic about them!