The biggest issue with the Kylo v Rey, Leia death, and Han scenes for me are how widely open to interpretation they are.

When I first saw the film I wondered if Leia was meant to be distracting Kylo so Rey could stab him. Bit odd and doesn’t really pay off.

Just on this site people interpret it as Leia projecting good into Ben. Leia projecting Han to talk to Kylo. Leia reaching out to Kylo and then accidentally getting stabbed by Rey so Rey is directly responsible for killing Leia.

Now honestly, I don’t know which was intended or which could’ve been best, but that’s such a huge scope for interpretation that it kinda suggests the film doesn’t actually tell us anything here because we’re all seeing different things. Personally I’d rather have a scene which doubles down on one idea, whichever idea it is, and portrays it as clearly as possible.

At the moment we’re told by Maz that Leia knows what she has to do, but even after watching her do it none of us have a clue what it was or if it worked.