It wouldn’t solve as many things as elegantly, as to me it still begs the question “why was Palpatines literal or figurative puppet so keen on killing her last time?”
Possibly because Rey has changed a lot in the year between VIII and IX.
We still have Palpatine ordering her death at the start of TROS.
These two simple line removals just make everything click so much better imo. The alternative is a lengthy procedure that removes large portions of this film to have things make sense.
Agreed.