If you want to debate the role of the Pope, be my guest.
But that’s not what what you were previously arguing, and what I corrected you on. You said that apostolic succession through the Catholic Popes and Bishops exists only in made up Catholic histories or fantasies.
I showed you places where Protestants and Orthodox (as examples) also accept the same line of apostolic succession, through the same Catholic Bishops and Popes until the Reformation or the break between the East and West. Of course they disagree on the specific roles of those Popes and Bishops.
You can add to your list and say that this line of succession exists only in Catholic, Orthodox and many Protestant histories and fantasies if you wish, but your original point that this concept is unique to the Catholic Church was already disproven.
I don't care what you think they accept. You claimed apostolic succession. That demands that Linus was actually at least a Bishop in the church in Rome. If you cannot prove that you cannot prove apostolic succession. So how about it?