[count-your-change]

A transition? If so then with all these transitions extinct they must have been unsuitable for life whereas what they were transitioning from was more suitable and with us today.
In short these supposed transitions would be a dead end with all those human characteristics not an improvement but a disadvantage to survival. Jungles, trees and savannas, chimps, o’rangs, apes, humans, etc. all here today but not one “transition”.

[Coyoteman]

A transition? If so then with all these transitions extinct they must have been unsuitable for life whereas what they were transitioning from was more suitable and with us today.

In short these supposed transitions would be a dead end with all those human characteristics not an improvement but a disadvantage to survival. Jungles, trees and savannas, chimps, o’rangs, apes, humans, etc. all here today but not one “transition”.

I see your problem!

You have an incorrect view of "transitional." As an analogy, you can look at your great, great grandparents as transitionals. They were not dead ends, nor failures, just farther back in the line leading to you.

Same with Lucy and the other transitionals in our hominid ancestry. Those species were well adapted to their conditions, but as conditions changed so did they. The new species were also well adapted to their new conditions. Neither was a dead end nor a failure; each was well adapted to the conditions in which they lived.

Hope this helps.