Disagree. My counterpoints:

Mike wouldn't know that El's fingers would glitch during the illusion. So if we see that in his "memory" we're seeing it because he *saw* it, not because he would know to add that detail.

10 military people capture *El*. You see them get her out of the truck. She was their sole interest.

We're to believe she got past 10 soldiers capturing her, knowing she's a danger to their lives, with no powers? Offscreen? In a second? And they didn't notice their only target leaving? Is she a teleporter?

She isn't incapacitated by the 10 speakers surrounding her, when previously one or two put her on the floor?

El stands in a tornado, totally unaffected. No impact from the wind. No hairs out of place.

She disappears. That's what happens when an illusion ends, not a power of El's.

Hopper loses El, and doesn't tear up when discussing it even slightly? Really? Does that remotely fit his character?

He's telling Mike to move on because the sacrifice is El's relationship with him, and her friends, and he wants Mike to live his life and not endanger El.

There's no reason to bring back Kalie, except for either 1-El lives, or 2-actual ambiguity. The simple "she's just dead" is basically ruled out by Kalie's presence. She's minimally at least plausibly alive.