Also, the Holiday Special totally retcons Palpatine’s resurrection in TROS. Star Wars is saved!
Retcons it how? All they did was make jokes about how implausible it was.
Well, it doesn’t actually happen. Kylo tells Palpatine that he dies when Vader throws him down a reactor shaft, and when that actually happens, he falls all the way into the explosion. I believe the canon explanation for Palptine’s return is that there was a clone body waiting for him on Exegol, and during the fall to his death, he projected his own spirit across the galaxy into that body. Doesn’t happen in the Holiday Special!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Although you could argue that only happens because Rey intervened so Palpatine had a lot more on his mind, and he just forgot to transfer his consciousness to Exegol.
Maybe this is the time divergence that those “leaks” were talking about.