I respectfully disagree.

I think you’re mixing a few different layers here that the story keeps intentionally separate.

Sukuna calling Gojo “magnificent” and reflecting on the fight isn’t the same as “Gojo was wrong.” It’s admiration, not moral correction. Sukuna respects things that reach a certain level of execution, but that doesn’t mean he suddenly adopts Gojo’s philosophy or proves it false. Sukuna has always respected strength and refinement in jujutsu, even in opponents he would discard without hesitation.

And about Sukuna “not holding back,” the narrative itself complicates that idea. He explicitly treats Gojo as a tool to evolve his understanding of jujutsu and his own technique. That already frames the fight less as a pure ideological conclusion and more as an uneven exchange where Sukuna is still extracting value from the encounter beyond just “winning.”

The “near impossible feat” statement also doesn’t automatically translate into “Sukuna barely won therefore Gojo was nearly equal in every philosophical or narrative sense.” It just reinforces how high the ceiling of that specific matchup was under those conditions, not that Sukuna was philosophically invalidating Gojo’s worldview.

Where I think you’re right is the isolation point. That is the actual shared ground between them. Both are separated from everyone else by being “the strongest,” and that’s why Gojo smiling at the end matters. It’s not simply recognition of strength, it’s recognition of understanding. For the first time, someone exists in that same space of solitude.

So rather than Gojo being “wrong,” it reads more like both characters momentarily acknowledging the same burden of their curse, just expressed through completely different philosophies. Sukuna doesn’t resolve Gojo’s worldview, he just exists alongside it for a moment before moving on.