dhenningcpa,
Thank you for your efforts on this. It seems as though Elementor’s Exit to Dashboard has been broken/wrong for a long time and then they fixed it? Why would an Elementor page builder user ever want to next go to a WordPress page edit that will destroy their Elementor page? Oh, well. Just need to retrain my self to not believe the Exit to Dashboard button.
Your idea of using the View Page is a good one, although it is still a new tab with editor page remaining open, but I usually do that anyway.