This is my hope on the 'Rhodey's not dead' front. The MCU trailers have been clever about not revealing big things up to this point, so I think there must be more to it than Rhodey filling the role Bill Foster did in comics Civil War.

I also am a bit put off by all the people complaining about Tony claiming he and Steve were friends, and this clearly being untrue because -- we haven't seen the first act of the movie yet, which is presumably where such a relationship would be established narratively because that's how movies work...? Of course I'm also put off by the idea that they have hated each other in the previous movies, because that's not what I see.