system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[MCU] How the hell did Thanos beat the Avengers 14 million to one?

Did Strange just stop when he got to the first one they won, or was it really that stacked in Thanos’ favor? Because home it doesn’t feel like he was *that* ahead of them in strength. In fact if you take away the IG, Thanos’ forces are overall weaker than the Earth’s forces and their heavyweights.
gpt
"If you take away the IG, Thanos' forces are overall weaker than the earths forces"  


And if you take away his arms and legs, Mike Tyson is weaker than me. Point is, Thanos DID have the IG. At the point Strange was looking at the future, Thanos had the gauntlet, and 4 of the 6 stones. There was nothing anyone could do against that level of power - the heroes only barely managed to put up a fight cause Thanos was still in shock after killing Gamora.  


Plus, there are a whole host of other ways that just getting the gauntlet away from Thanos still lets them lose. THanos is stopped, but temptation to use the gauntlet leads to earth being attacked, again and again, by cosmic supervillains. Earths heroes descend into infighting over who gets to use the gauntlet, and the earth is destroyed. The Nova Corps demand that they be given the stones for protection, but the Asgardians and Sorcerers also want to do that, and the conflict gets violent, a battle across the universe.  


Strange didn't just need Thanos stopped, he needed a situation where the stones are gone, and then they somehow find a way to bring everyone back AFTER that. Only Thanos could manage to destroy the stones, so he had to win and then do it, but they still needed everyone back, so they had to find a way to get the stones from back in time, use them, then send them back.