I don’t know what to say except I disagree. If he’s trying to end the cycle of war with the First Order victorious, I don’t see how that’s revealing anything, especially when that’s essentially his stated goal coming off the last movie. It’s just stakes setting and clarifying his motivations, which are otherwise far too obfuscated.

That’s not to say I’m married to the phrase, but any change would need to accomplish the same thing in my mind. Something about bringing a new order to the galaxy or something could work. But anything that casts him as purely megalomaniacal doesn’t do the film or the character any favors.