I have ot agree with you in that regards.
The problem was mainly Alexandra. She relied on Rasputin and if Nicholas had given away, then the Duma probably would have gotten rid of Rasputin and quite frankly she would have been in terror of her hemophiliac son ending up dying because Rasputin wasn’t there ot heal him. She never let the public know and she was really antisocial and didn’t mingle with anyone in society, so no one was really able to understand, much less reach out. AS a result of all her problems, she fought against the monarchy becoming a constitutional one and therefore ended up fight to keep the autocracy going.
No, the problem was that Russia had an 18th century agriculture system. Stolypin was crucial. Year after year, he doubled productivity in just 6 years.
If Stolypin had lived, they would have transitioned into a modern agricultural system. Communism would have been irrelevant because the major land reform would have already occurred.
After he died, the reforms lost their impetus and were buried in the catastrophe of the first world war.
When the land reform didn’t happen, the Commies came to power, and overhauled the system badly - putting Russia behind for the remainder of the next two decades. It wasn’t until Stalin came to power that they would even start to approach what they did in the pre-Commie years.