Kickl will have what happened in 2019 absolutely foremost in his mind. My thinking is that he actually would quite like a GroKo. He gets to campaign and consolidate for another two years (much easier than governance) with an eye on early Nationalrat elex and/or the presidency in 27

I suspect he also put himself front and centre of the entire campaign knowing that the result would reflect on him and make his ouster by any of the established Burschenschafter/pan German party establishment way harder… it was always going to be a coalition negotiation starter that he get axed