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I think the main things I see differently are:
- Replacing Biden on the ticket, esp. when he doesn't want to be replaced, does not equate to a landslide election for Democrats. Most of the negatives will remain; the party in power is typically - often unfairly, but again political reality - judged on what happened during their tenure.
- The benefits of having a better candidate are therefore fairly minimal in terms of winning the election - I'm not talking about who would be a better president here, just electability. I think they are outweighed by the damage that a messy primary would have on unity of the electorate/coalition, etc.
- I think Biden was being at least largely truthful when he said that one of the reasons he is running again is to defeat Trump, the opposite of the idea that they don't care if Trump wins. Maybe he's totally wrong about that or maybe it's a smokescreen, but it's not that there's nothing Democrats could have done, ever. It's that it's way too late to do any of those things now.
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