You tell some good stories. Unfortunately, your "guess" and what you think "perhaps" happened "1 million" years ago is not really the same as the actual truth. It is just a story.
Berned asked for a story. His implication was that no such story was possible. As it turns out, such stories are not only possible, but plausible.
But I can do better still: at virtually every step where I described an eye with varying degrees of functionality, we can find eyes in the animal kingdom that remain as I have described.