Yeah, the only reason this is possible in the situation is because you already know there’s only one possible person on the other end (you have already exchange

Yeah, the only reason this is possible in the situation is because you already know there’s only one possible person on the other end (you have already exchanged some meta-information about the channel). QE doesn’t stop anyone from creating a new node in the middle of a single edge and then re-establishing the QE channel in between.