Storyboards and cut content

I recently got my hands on a dream item. The Yellow Star storyboards. I started uploading them a while back, but only recently did I reach a point where the large cuts from the episode, can be seen.
And the cuts themselves are interesting and confusing. Interesting because they add a lot of detail that was more or less missing from the episode. But also confusing, because some of them add important details to the episode and do not represent a huge investment in production material.
From my understanding, cuts in old anime or hentai will be done because more scenes, mean more production materials that can be expensive. But some of the cuts in Yellow Star barely have any animation. They are for the most part, just still frames.
Still frames that would nonetheless add quite a bit to the episode.
These cuts do not make any sense to me, but I'm glad that I can at least see them in the storyboards and I'm also very glad to share them with you :)