KilroyMcFadden said:

ffs. The EU is just glorified fanfic. They should just put out the licenses and let people write what they will. because of LFL's tremendous missteps with this franchise, I already, (and I bet I'm not alone,) determine what is "canon" to me.*

*Which is why Splinter is a fever dream Luke has after conking his head on an overhang after battling Vader in the cave on Dagobah and is therefore included in my canon.

Personally, I fit the story into my personal canon by going with the idea that Luke and Leia just fought an apparition created by the Kaiburr crystal in the Temple of Pomojema and not Vader himself.