I love Kailani's skating, but in a stacked field like the NHK, her shortcomings are really apparent.
First of all, 5 triples and 2 2axels in the free? No. Where is the sal? If the loop-euler-sal is not ready, she could at least replace one of the 2axels with a sal? What about a axel-euler-sal or 3sal-2axel sequence? For me, 6 triples and 2 2axels is a minimum. I know of her struggles with the toe loop but I thought she was working on / once attempted a 3flip3toe? How did that go?
Second of all, no 3rd combo or the 3 jump combo? She needs to learn that points are points and she can't just miss out on easy points like that. If she had planned it for the opening flip and somehow missed it, she needs to learn to put it in later.
Third of all, the flutz is not improved enough to be done 3 times. The edge is still quite bad and the rotation is bad on naked eye. She barely got 1 points for two of the lutzes that she stood up on because of the e call and the <<. She should go for the solo flip in the short and repeat the flip in the free instead.
I think this is doable for her:
SP: 3loop3loop, 3flip, 2axel.
FS 1: 3flip2toe2loop, 3lutz, 3loop2loop, 3sal-2axel SEQ // 3flip, 3loop, 2axel
FS 2 for later in the season: 3flip2toe2loop, 3lutz, 3loop-euler-3sal, 2axel2toe// 3flip, 3loop, 2axel
Fourth of all, I love her skating but she was so slow, she really was. Her strokes are also short and laboured - compared to the Russians, Japanese and Americans. She wasn't covering the ice well. She didn't stumble and fall all over the ice like others but to me she didn't deserve higher PCS.
Fifth of all, while her programs are stunning for me to watch as a spectator because of her elegant line and the finesse, they are quite empty. I enjoy the projection and the musicality, but on the opposite spectrum of my disdain for overly complex and hectic transitions of the Russians, I feel her programs have nothing in them but plain elements.
I hope I don't come across as harsh because I am her biggest fan, and I am so proud of her skating and her representing Australia, but if she wants to move further up, these are some of the things I think she should focus on. I wonder how new Aussie fans are going to think - she managed a visibly clean competition but placed dead last behind skaters who popped, fell and stumbled several times.
On the bright side, I believe the 3loop3loop in the short is Kailani's first international ratified 3/3?

(well, if not, then she hasn't done one in a while anyways)