Your making great points especially if you consider the relativistic universe.
Being only a bright generalist, I sadly cannot answer properly to this discussion. Nevertheless, from all the "alternative" / "forbidden" knowledge acquired across many different fields in the last four years, I have a very strong gut feeling that "nature DOES NOT seek maximum entropy overall".
Now, If you do not have time, forget it, information is so disparate :/ . But I can share some good links in PM somewhere to avoid most of disinformation.
For some unknown reason I just spewed (archived) a blown fuse on some random person’s Medium blog (she’s like the mayor of Seattle or something similarly unimportant):