I guess I’m still confused about Palpy flip-flopping between wanting Rey as a child, giving up trying to find her, deciding to kill her, and then going back to finding Rey after Ben turns.
Note: Edited this comment to reflect what I believe Hal is going for.
Palpatine’s plan in the edit we’re creating:
- Palpatine sends Ochi to track down and kill Rey because he “saw what [she] would become” (a powerful Jedi), but her parents won’t reveal her location. Ochi kills them as he feels they no longer serve any purpose.
- Palpatine puts all of his efforts into corrupting Ben Solo for an essence transfer.
- Palpatine wants Snoke to have Kylo kill Rey because he is using only Kylo. Kylo resists.
- He had already put a ton of effort into corrupting Kylo, so yet again he tells him on Exegol to kill Rey. This is the task which will prove whether or not he is a worthy vessel.
- Kylo realigns himself with the light, and Palpatine senses it. His new goal is to corrupt Rey and essence transfer into her.
- She refuses. Then he discovers he can drain their dyad to restore his full strength.
It’s really complicated, but at least it (mostly) makes sense.