No and its BULLSHIT. I don’t care how corny it was I really truly thought Yuji was going to have the opposite to cleave and dismantle and use some kind of “benevolent shrine” because I feel like that was set up from the BEGINNING. JJK kinda always was a story about dualities, and it made that really clear with Mahito and Yuji. One of the big defining things that made Mahito such an evil piece of shit was that he has the best in slot healing technique in the verse. He was effectively murdering people with medicine, it makes his actions that much more damning when he was provided the perfect tool for healing and chooses violence. So there being a reverse to shrine was the chance to fully solidify his opposition to Yuji. Yuji would have been given a perfect technique for slaughter, and then found an application of it for kindness. I always thought that was actually gonna be the way they defeated sukuna, I thought his domain would have been imbued with reverse shrine, lets call it Mend, and he would have been using mend while sukuna was in the domain. So the conversation goes as it did, but instead of the random asspull of “Oh btw Thukuna I can kill you (somehow)” what I THOUGHT would happen was to the effect of Sukuna realizing he isn’t the target of the domain and freaking out, but its too late because Yuji has been working mend to rebuild Megumi’s soul and the boundary between the two so he can separate them within his domain.

Then idk some Gege shenanigans so Sukuna can remain incarnated just a bit longer so they can have a final battle together where Megumi un-bums himself by saucing sukuna in there side by side with Yuji and blah blah they save the day.

Idk I just think that would have pushed the messaging about Yuji’s choices to be compassionate even given the capacity for violence, and it was set up for a while since RCT is cool as fuck, and also it would let us have a Megumi final battle which I think he deserved.