Hello Peter, thanks for taking the time to respond.

You said:

"This does not address the problem. It’s the old argument of “free Will“."

Not quite, my friend.

It's not solely about free will.

Consider every option I present at the end of the article. Would you rather live in any of them, as opposed to this world?

You said:

"Yet if God is all powerful and all knowing we would not need Satan. It’s that simple, even if it does reduce God’s status."

You don't make an argument, here. You leap from one premise to a conclusion, but you skip the heart of the argument.

Why would God being all-powerful and all-knowing mean that we would not need Satan?

Are you implying that God only needs Satan because God is not all-powerful nor all-knowing?

What exactly is your argument, here?