They have gained I agree. If there was any friction between PTI and establishment, they’re truly on one page now. PTI needs establishment backing for life support, what better way to assure that then Nawaz’s headlong collision with them. But in future there might be a big political cost to PTI, already our PM has been made out to be some sort of irrelevant puppet by the opposition, even Sheikh Rasheed speaks directly on behalf of the establishment and addresses directly the opposition, hardly even any lip service is left for IK. He’s very much in the background of an ongoing dispute.
Democracy produces stability, a viable distribution of power, and if done right it also produces a relatively high degree of accountability. And it was one of the founding principles of Pakistan, as well as being prescribed for us as Muslims.
You live in the UK, and I assume these things are reflections of yours on the system here, can you seriously say that this system is not better, and does not produce better outcomes, than the vast majority of countries on earth? Sure it needs improvement, but it is several parsecs beyond Pakistan’s hybrid regime.
I agree with some of what you have said, as for direct democracy, direct elections of a head of state etc. These ideas are fine, but they need to be embedded in a suitable system, I’d refer you to this thread. We’ve got a good discussions going on about this subject in this and other threads:
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/parliamentary-supremacy-in-pakistan.546157/