A Re-Take reference! Anyways if this Asuka truly doesn't feel anything towards this Shinji (and isn't just hiding her feelings like she usually does) then yeah he needs to let her go.
I kinda remember how Re-take fans got so annoying during the 2000's with their "is like an official work but better." I can't even point and laugh at them after the disaster of the Rebuilds. At the end the artsy Anno got devoured by it's own creation and did another mediocre product that is going to be forgotten in a pair of years.
The scenes were their eyes are covered by just total blackness or shadows from the sun are good. Shinji pays the price of taking no risk, no advancement when you must, no guts no glory.
Very old fan here. I liked the EOE ending more than any other ending in the entire franchise. To me Re-take is a million miles above the dumpster garbage that was the Rebuild series. What a complete waste of time and effort that was... Well, at least Anno got his moola from his cash cow creation and still keeping fans dissatisfied and sticking to the Evangelion franchise. A true real life Gendo Ikari.