What you say is true.
But God enters into things; He has a plan for each of us, and a plan for the ones who didn’t get an initial, earthly ‘shove’. I believe that His inspiration is in every human being; and it’s all in the plan - even this so-called ‘Pope’ is in the larger plan.
Someday, we’ll understand how it all fell out.
Yes, I agree, and sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is knowing how small I am in the context of God, and faith that God has it all figured out.