Considering they both know she can amp herself using the dark dimension and she still considers strange to be superior to herself then we see what we saw in this episode then personally I don't see anything contradicting such
What specifically do you mean "what we saw in this episode"?
"Strange is superior to The Ancient One (When she isn't channeling The Dark Dimension) in power (As opposed to potential, & without him channeling The Dark Dimension) because Strange was slowing down the destruction of the universe (Despite a lack of visible signs it was showing down, & granting resistance to EE doesn't mean exerting a given AP.) & also this evidence is why Strange is superior to The Ancient One"?
Universe is only confirmed to actually be set up for destruction if the absolute point is successful bypassed by evil strange if he hadn't succeeded then it wouldn't be more than a visual effect I suppose so since the timeline was split there were two potential paths where things could go that were in collision with one another either way Strange would have to be made whole and timelines would have to become one yet again the destruction of the universe would only occur in the case that evil strange won, became whole, and overwrote an absolute point.
If I recall correctly, we could see people & buildings, immobile, fading & blackening & starting to disappear, even before the 2 Stranges started fighting. Am I not mistaken?
Because if so, the universe was being destroyed BEFORE he achieved the power to bypass the absolute point by absorbing himself.
All of these exist in the universe there's a past, present, and future there's no question about that there's no partial existence of any of these they exist in full all four dimensions and they are all destroyed with the destruction of the timeline
But the spatial dimensions visbly aren't infinite (Black void encroaching all over, barely a city left.) at the time Strange starts fighting the end of the universe, & if it's deleting the timeline, why would there be enough Past or Future for there to be an infinite spatial dimension?
Considering he pushed at it and was saying he's trying to fix it I'd say he definitely was doing more than initially defending himself from the destruction
Yes, but at that point, Strange was a desperate man, who had spent centuries seeking power, seeking the same thing, & he was in denial, trying to change what he had told by The Ancient One was impossible. Impossible to the point that making it possible, that breaking that rule is what breaks the universe.
& visually, we could see in his involuntary shapeshifting, his lack of self-awareness as he speaks to Christine, & his emotions that he was out of control & out of touch.
I'd argue that narratively, it makes no sense for him to be succeeding AT ALL. He is a desperate, explicitly-stated-as-misguided man, in denial of his whole reality.
Him saying "I'll fix it", to me, seems like the words of someone who's just that. Misguided, desperate, & in denial, trying to do the impossible.
Things still get erased -Christine does, at least- in his shield or not, even as he tries to fights it, straining with all his might.
So, without evidence that he is actually having any success, why assume that he is slowing it down?
I'd have to agree somewhat with indeed being overthinking because it's flat out stated and shown what's happening in some of these cases even with things like strange literally having a entire conversation about the restoration of the timeline while holding back it's destruction even going to the watcher for assistance whom we're flat out told could do the feat himself but wouldn't as strange was warned of this and chose his path so his only option then was to just defend himself
Unfortunately, I don't remember the dialogue as well as I'd like to be able to, so I'd have to check it again, & I'm not even sure what statements you mean for all of that part of your post. I am sorry for that.
Sorry about the delay in replying. I've been AFK for a while. & again, sorry for any bother.
To paraphrase myself as above, the scaling as is feels weird, with TAO claiming Strange is superior, but not precisely (Future potential, with use of TDD, etc.) in what way, & the basis for that is a feat that seems to lack evidence for him actually succeeding in performing it, doesn't make sense for him to succeed in narratively, & doesn't actually feels like it involves infinite dimensions.