Meera, Ekta and the creatives can listen to the crickets at night because that's how quiet it will be when it is the Meera se show. I'm sure there will be an audience - but the passion and love for KS that JB evoked would have died. The pragmatists will have won and the romantics would have been KOed.
They won't need to worry about the screen catching on fire because of the incendiary chemistry of JW and BW. It will be like buckets of cold water every night with the monkeylike smiles of Meera trying to woo the very hot but totally destroyed character of JW.
I can't understand the need to kill Bani. She is integral to KS at least the KS I love to watch. RK is a wonderful, amazing actor and his portrayal of the powerful, charismatic, khadoos JW made me fall hard for the character of JW. But seeing JW with anyone else but Bani would make me physically ill. Just seeing Meera wrap her claws around JW in a hug makes me want to vomit. So a KS with JM would be completely unwatchable for me regardless of RK.