“The search for exogol” really ruined the tension in the film for me and made it quite boring to watch since we already saw what they were searching for at the very beginning- Exogol, palpatines and his fleet- so there was no room left for tension, surprise and mystery.
I would propose somewhat of a radical reconstruction of the film where Rey and Kylo are both racing to find the wayfinders with Kylo beating her to the chase and finding exogol before the deathstar sequence(only possible in a Rey nobody edit to avoid the revelations on kijjimi).
Set up the stakes in the opening with a montage of palpatine’s broadcast, use the cut kylo bridge scene from TLJ https://youtu.be/tOk-ado_fLA perhaps with the destroyer hovering above coruscant/night ala what Snooker did https://i.imgur.com/OasRBRj.png, intercut with planets around the galaxy hearing the transmition https://youtu.be/QSI6Cn6GkK0 https://youtu.be/Slsj4YeYaYQ, the resistance would soon find out from Boolio that Kylo has begun the search for a Sith Wayfinder to get to exogol, and so the race would begin.
