Something hit me.
Say we did get a Luke name-drop or even some labored, CGI-drenched cameo and this season ends with The Child going off to be trained at Luke’s new Jedi academy, which
The Last Jefi made clear that’s what he was doing in those years following ROTJ, before everything went sideways and he exiled himself.
What if, down the road, we somehow learn that an older, adolescent “baby Yoda” (I hate that name) was among the students killed by Kylo and the Knights?
They wouldn’t even have to spell it out, just imply that’s where he was ultimately taken and, sadly, would’ve been among those killed prior to Like walking away from it all?
If this show is going to have some ties/links to the events in the sequels (Force-infused cloning efforts, the First Order rising from the Empire, etc.), then our little green Force frog baby could certainly be among the pupils at Luke’s academy in those years leading up to Luke vanishing.