Magical Hotfixes have been a recurring theme in Act 6, and the main tone was, unsurprisingly, that they don't really work.
Aranea will probably leave Jake a husk. A heroic, noble and fearless... near-empty husk, with deep, crippling cracks wherever her Light doesn't reach. And we saw already that there is a lot of weird shit hidden under Mr. English's flat, unpolished surface, enough shit to hide a whole Dirk Strider in.
Jake's actual spiritual journey, rite of adulthood, heroic ascension, Super-Sayanhood and all that might be in shedding his healing, in crawling back into the hole, in becoming
not the hero his friends deserve, but the slightly less superficial asshole they need.
OK, and then there is at least a 33% chance that the next panel is just standard Jake, whose personality problems turn out bigger than anything Aranea could throw at him.
Anyone else getting the feeling that Aranea is really ludicrously powerful? She may actually be able to break the alpha timeline, assuming John's influence doesn't throw a wrench into her plans.
Aranea is mainly ludicrously well informed. That is her whole shtick. It won't help her though, if the things she told Meenah are her real plan.
LE controls the entanglement of causality that forms Paradox Space. If Aranea escapes him by hijacking a beta-timeline that does not include his creation and actually keeping it alive, he, as a Lord of Time, most probably can easily invade it and rip everything in it apart out of sheer malice. His existence would not be invalidated, even if Aranea really can keep the offshoot timeline running indefinitely, because the Alpha timeline has to exist to close the loops.
From a literary standpoint, the idea of characters rebelling against the themes and rules of the story that contains them intrigues me. If Hussie pulls this off well, it may make for a really interesting denouement.
We will see. I don't claim I can predict anything, but this might be just a somewhat elegant way to showcase the true power of either LE or HIC before the final battle starts. And to move some Chekhovian cannons into firing position.