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CS, it’s very clear… that you have it wrong. In the first pshat where Rashi says it can be a person who has died Rashi EXPLICITLY says that the kegon here is lav davka and does NOT mean “like”! Here is the Rashi:
אי מן חייא הוא כגון רבינו הקדוש. אם משיח מאותן שחיים עכשיו ודאי היינו רבינו הקדוש דסובל תחלואים וחסיד גמור הוה כדאמרינן בבבא מציעא (פה א), ואם היה מאותן שמתו כבר היה דניאל איש חמודות שנדון ביסורין בגוב אריות וחסיד גמור היה, והאי כגון לאו דווקא, לישנא אחרינא: כגון רבינו הקדוש, כלומר, אם יש דוגמתו בחיים היינו רבינו הקדוש, ואם דוגמא הוא למתים, היינו כגון דניאל איש חמודות.
According to this Rashi the gemoro makes no allowance for saying it is any dead person other than Doniel, and even that is only according to the first explanation. The second explanation doesn’t even allow for that.
Note, the gemoro is talking only about the possibility of it being someone alive at the time the statement was made, and Rashi is explaining that. It is not talking about a later time, when Rebbi is no longer alive. Clearly, then it can be someone else who is alive. Nonetheless, regarding the possibility that it is someone who has died, there is no allowance in the gemoro or Rashi that it can be anyone other than Daniel. If you want to claim it is the Lubavicher rebbe, the gemoro should not, and can not, be cited as any type of support that it is possible.