Another hypothetical for theists.

[Edwardo Piet]

I guess I don't even understand the OP. The underlying assumption seems to be that this is not the best of all possible worlds. I don't know if it is or isn't. Seems like an unanswerable question. That's what makes the Problem of Evil moot.

IMO this is the best and worst of all physically possible worlds because it's the only physically possible world because philosophical determinism is true. However, we can still imagine in the hypothetical, logically possible worlds that would in theory be far better than this one (a world exactly the same but without children starving to death and animals being tortured is already a logically possible world that is better).

So it really depends what kind of 'possibility' we're talking about.