You know all this talk has me thinking about alternative endings for TFA.

First of all you ditch the SKB immediately. Incredibly lazy rehash that’d already been rehashed in the last film.

Instead you shift the focus exclusively back to Luke. It’s a race to see who can find him first.

Rey is never captured. She makes it back to the Resistance. Meanwhile, the First Order manage to capture Luke and so the last part of the film is a rescue mission.

That or Rey and Luke are both captured, escape their cells independently, and then team up to escape the base while the Resistance makes their own assault.

Just something other than the tired mega-weapon AGAIN.

That said, my ranked list would go as follows:
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
The Caravan of Courage
The Battle for Endor
The Holiday Special

Jedit: Just came up with a better solution.

We keep the film more or less the same. But instead of the SKB the dilemma is instead about going on an unsactioned rescue mission for Rey.

Rey is captured but Leia can’t openly sanction a rescue mission as it would be seen as provoking the First Order and Rey isn’t valuable enough to justify it.

So instead Finn, Han and Chewie decide to strike out on their own to rescue her.

Once they arrive the film can play out more or less how it did. Except that once they’re there they find a secret experimental craft or fleet or biological weapon or something and that becomes the justification for destroying the base before they leave.