That gave me an idea.
What if Rey simply doesn’t answer the “Rey who?” question? As in, the question is still asked of her, but instead of saying “Rey Skywalker,” she just takes a beat to consider it, then smiles, we get the binary sunset, and the movie ends. Or she answers with, “Just Rey.”
The reasoning being, it highlights that she’s free to decide who she wants to be from now on. She doesn’t have to be beholden to either her family (Palpatine, or if it’s a Rey Nobody edit, her parents who did nothing with their lives) or her “adoptive” family (Luke/Leia/Han) - she’s just Rey, and she gets to decide what that means for herself.
I think this does a good job of wrapping up her arc, since throughout the trilogy she’s been looking for meaning through others (her family, then Finn, then Han, then Luke, then Kylo, etc), but now she’s accepted that she can create her own meaning. Leaving Luke and Leia’s sabers at Luke’s childhood home and moving forward with one of her own creation (with a symbolic new color) also accentuates this.
What do you guys think?