But you're missing one of the Titans in this field, Daniel Dennett.

He refutes a lot of the claims you make, particularly that determinism and free will are incompatible, in a lot of places including this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Evolves

Yes, it seems unintuitive. Yes, I found his argument challenging but I was eventually won over. I will note that Dennett does not at all claim we live in a deterministic universe or not.

I am just starting what looks like his magnum opus, his recent Bach to Bacteria, which I just realized is a bit of a pun (but as a German speaker I think of the composer as Bachhhh which a guttural ch) and it promises to go more into the ideas.