[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

The “gaps” appear more like the Grand Canyon. How does one leap to the other side one small step at a time?

One walks down one side and up the other. The same way an ant would cross the "gap" between two twigs on a bush. Evolution doesn't claim that there are intermediate forms between every end point, just that if you go back far enough you'll find the branching point.

[count-your-change]

Nope, down one side and up the other doesn't work. Darwin called for “infinitesimally small” steps from primitive form to developed form. The Cambrian “explosion” is that Grand Canyon.