I guess some people thought they needed love triangles in that show... too bad.
We probably are at a tipping point, it might get worse each ep from now.
I liked the surprise though, had a little tear even.

Back to before that ep:
I still think the platinum trio and Kawasegawa were not at their full potential in the original timeline.
Kawasegawa was not a film director
For some reason Kyouya had that picture from very early Aki's art and it feels like in that original timeline Aki probably never explored the paths of creation behind that piece.

But I'm only pushing the same idea again, I think I heard him saying something similar.

But again the show probably will get worse.

detail: I wonder if his loss of consciousness while trying to remember who that artist is will play a role later. I can't remember if we have had prior knowledge of that Yamashina Kazu