Force fields, including the gravitational field, contain an energy density. We therefor can exclude that a field source, moving with constant velocity, does permanently emit its static field. Providing the field energy content again and again would exhaust the field source.
We therefor must conclude that force fields are co-moving with its source as long as the source is not accelerated. But according to the co-movement, any local field strength value is instantaneously valid without any retarded transmission from the field source.
In cosmic distances it makes a tremendous difference if the proposed field retardation is real or not.
The consequence is that all calculations of galaxy dynamics are wrong, if they are based on that alleged retardations. Only the impact of accelerated movements is retarded.