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You make many good points for further discussion - well stated, with respect and, to me, good will. How refreshing it is. I can only respond to this one right now.

What evidence is there that what we now have is what Christ intended?

THAT is the $64,0000 Dollar Question. (Now I have really dated myself!)

I can only answer in the light of my own feeble struggle toward the truth. First, came a dissatisfaction with incoherence/contradictory conclusions that I saw as the fruit of the multiplied sola traditions. I simply could not understand then, nor can I today, why God could not make Himself clearer.

Full disclosure: I knew about the Roman Catholic church - (I am married to one!), but I had a life long bias and bigotry against that tradition; along with a heaping helping of true ignorance.

It was my Catholic wife (bless her) who suggested that I attend an Orthodox Divine Liturgy. At that time, the local Greek Orthodox were using borrowed space (a Catholic church in the next town from me) and flew in a priest from out of town once a month. I attended my first Divine Liturgy along with maybe 25 others.

It was that experience that broke through my carefully crafted, self made and as I thought, air tight belief. I saw worship worthy of the Creator and Sustainer of the universe that day. Then I had the challenge of finding what it was all about.

You ask for evidence. All I can halfway confirm is the evidence of my own experience. All the objection that any sola believer worth his salt could raise - I raised them one by one - I got answers.

I expect my answer to be unsatisfying and unconvincing, but, it's what I can bring. Other evidences to there being "one holy catholic and apostolic church, visible upon this earth today are repeatedly posted here and repeated ignored or poorly engaged, for the most part. imo.

ps - and simply for clarity - I will not respond on an open thread, to any comments/questions concerning the division between the Eastern and Western traditions of the one holy and catholic, apostolic church.