Mandalorian season 3 reframed or what I think was the original story before executive meddling. Each paragraph is roughly one episode.
Season starts off with BOBF Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian and for the most part is exactly what happens in this episode, with the exception that Mando’s spear is not turned into chainmail. Whether this was meant to happen at the underside of Halo or not, who knows, but I’d say probably, since Mando isn’t very mobile at this point. Mando goes on a quest to redeem himself as he’s now an apostate. Because of his low interplanetary mobility, Mando takes the spacebus to Tatooine to visit Peli Motto and acquires the Hot Rod N-1, with R5-D4 as its astromech.
Mando goes to Kalevala to see Bo-Katan, as seen at end of Mandalorian s3e01. Nothing else is relevant from that episode, IG-11 plotline doesn’t exist, Grogu lives with Luke where he’s training his jedi powers, he’s not part of the show. Bo-Katan still sulks, but agrees to go to Mandalore just to prove a point abo