“Fortunately we have the original texts to compare our translations to.”
No, we don’t. No one does. There is not a single autograph of any Biblical book known to exist anywhere in the world. What you just said is OBJECTIVELY false. All we have are copies - and even some of those might be translations of copies.
Allow me to clarify....we have the original languages to compare our texts to. You are correct....we don’t have a copy of the original texts....but we’ve got some that are close....at least for the NT.