You specifically said that him resigning was something you wanted him to do. He tried 4 times. Would you have had him abandon his post? Absurd. You can’t have your cake and eat it too here, either resigning doesn’t actually matter to you or you would have rather had him put people in danger by abandoning his post and going AWOL.

Secondly, he tried to have his position eliminated. He was of the belief that it was superfluous, and that too was rejected. When his resignation was rejected several times, he countered with the idea of eliminating his position altogether, citing previous times where no such position was in place. This, too, was rejected. Read the transcript of December 19, 1927, where Stalin makes the case of its redundancy as opportunism and opposition had already been weeded out in his eyes, and specifically states that his power can be spread to those under him and nothing would fundamentally change other than a removal of what he calls “distortions.”

We have archival evidence that what you proposed he could have done, but didn’t, was actually tried by him and rejected. He wasn’t a dictator with absolute control, but an elected official. He was no saint, but the idea that he didn’t hate his position flies in the face of him outright telling everyone that he lacked the strength to continue and would rather live out the rest of his days in a quiet part of the country doing menial party work. Either you reject the archival evidence, or you reframe your thinking.