What if... No Kaladin?

[Beholder He/him]

So me and my full cosmere friend had a discussion about, 'What if Kaladin was never in SA?' or something to that effect. And it's pretty interesting. So, no Kaldin. Let's work our way from the end (this is how we talked about it). No Kaldin means Dalinar was never saved at the end of WoK so Sadeas likely took over the war camps and unified the Alethi. Most likely he crowned himself king and then would have gathered the armies and wiped out the Parshendi before Venli discovered stormform and stopped the Desolation from occurring. So, yeah. Odium's plans would have been foiled for untold years. However, as my friend said, no Kaldin also means that Amaram would have died, losing Sadeas one of his best, if not his best, military commander. (Other than himself). My friend said this would offset the power of Sadeas' army. I disagreed however and I'm interested as to what you all think.