That’s a really interesting angle, RL! I like it.

So how would such an idea be implemented? I imagine that it would be a change to Kylo’s Quarters duel and the hangar scene, and then some of Kylo’s dialogue would need to be removed on the Death Star so that his action of destroying the Wayfinder is purely so that Rey will abandon her quest to find Exegol and run away with him instead.

Although, if Kylo’s purpose now is to have Rey run away with him, what is the motivation behind their duel? In the original film the reason is also a little unclear, but perhaps Kylo is giving in to the inevitability of his role as a new Vader, and Rey wants to defeat him because he’s still evil and now has the only way to get to Exegol. With Kylo’s new motivation, he wants only for her to run away with him, so why fight?