You have clearly never studied the early church of the apostles.
Study it.
All your assumptions are false.
And as you confirm 2 Tim says nothing about sola scriptura,
Indeed scripture identifies sources of truth outside itself.
So sola scriptura is neither historically, scripturally or logically true,
It is also why all Protestabts disagree with each other on all the basics .
Calvin didn’t agree with luther or Zwingli.
Calvinists do not believe what calvin did , Lutherans do not agree with Luther!
So sola scriptura doesn’t work. To quote Luther in despair of the monster he created he said “ every milkmaid now has their own doctrine”
The problem is if you only have tge words of scripture not the meaning you do not have the word of God.
Catholics believe the true church comprising scripture, and meaning provide by authority of councils and tradition handed down from the first.
Protestants only believe in their own arrogance combined with scripture, and schism if anyone disagrees,
Yet they are told not to “ lean on their own understanding” by scripture but to listen to those who were “sent”.
You don’t.
Here is an example of tradition, the faith handed down.
eg what John meant when he echoed Jesus words in John 6 , we know because he passed it to his disciples in succession.
So read ignatius to smyrneans who tells you what John taught him. The first generation of succession
A Eucharist of the real flesh valid only if presided by bishop in succession .
So that is what John 6 means.
And as Paul says “ stay true to what we taught you by word of mouth and letter”
Without tradition and authority you only have words , not the word of God
Catholics have the true faith, handed down from the start, as traditon , with the sources of authority Jesus gav3 to bind and loose. As Jesus promised the gates of hell would not prevail against His church.
For the first time, study the early church and what it believed. You clearly don’t know.