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Regarding the fact the Luv leaves K in Vegas:

I inferred that Luv was forced to kill and behave violently against her will because she is enslaved by Wallace. In the archives room with K, she asks him a personal question after stating how wonderful it would be to have someone ask you a personal question. She cries more than once when committing violence, and also steals a kiss from K before fatally wounding him. Each of those acts seemed to originate from her true self either instinctively (crying) be or in moments when she had space to exercise her freedom.

Luv leaving K in Las Vegas felt like an act of mercy—she was not ordered to kill him and he was no longer a hindrance to get mission, so she left him alone and alive.

I thought this set Luv up as a thematic foil to K, which makes his choice at the end all the more powerful: he does not follow the order-to-kill of the replicant leader. Instead he becomes aware that he is free (seeing a miracle) and chooses not to kill Deckard. Luv is unable to break her bonds and remains enslaved to Wallace's will.

At least that was my interpretation, would be interested if anyone else felt this way