I agree 100 percent and the masses can believe what they want. It's just that we are both rational actors. Most countries - North Korea, USA etc, are all rational. There are irrational individuals within them but there are always "adults in the room." They bring everyone back to the ground. They can believe in their conventional superiority all they want, but their military knows very well our capabilities and what we can do to them.
In the past whether it was the parliament attack or the Mumbai attacks, their military held them back. In the parliament attack it was lack of cold start and Pakistani corp's reaching their defensive positions early amongst other things. Later in 2008 it was because of their army chief told their prime minister that they would potentially lose territory. Both places their military had informed the politicians that "we can attack but there will be consequences on us."
Their soldiers have not been so unprofessional in the past at least in dealing with us as opposed to their counterinsurgency activities (although there is a history of fake awards with them). Even Abhinandan was professional in his behaviour after being shot down and after being back in India. I feel the fake surgical strikes of 2016 made them even less professional and more an extension of the Modi government. The DGMO claiming "surgical strikes" when nothing of the sort happened showed their unprofessionalism and politisization. Pakistan had, within weeks, paid them back many times over across the LOC as can be read from their papers. Many Indian LOC bunkers were terrified of being sniped sapping already low morale. Their IAF top leadership continuous parroting F16 nonsense has also exposed their lack of professionalism and politicization of the IAF. Its sad that Abhinandan will be considered for a significant award (based on downing an F16) which many from their forces have had the honour to die fighting for. It is no water off my back as a Pakistani but it does dishonour their own heroes from the past. I am sure he feels ashamed being considered on that basis - as any honorouble person would.
I find this whole episode has truly flipped the script on many aspects of our relationship with India. It is always the weaker conventional force that talks escalation to Nuclear weapons, missile attacks etc. If you look at prior to Feb 27 2019, you will never find an instance of India threatening to use missile attacks first on Pakistan. Its not even a consideration. Its understood that they would use conventional means and we as the relatively conventionally weaker side would consider missile attacks first. Interestingly that is where we got off the escalation ladder. Them threatening that we committed an act of war and that they were about to launch missiles. Nothing of the sort happened. The move to missile, nuclear threats and not following through (and dreams of Rafale) was utterly humiliating for them, however they try to spin this. They started off with dreams of hindu supremacy and ended with shattered egos and lies. I bet they wish they just left well enough alone like the other times.