Is This All Simulation?
Why you think so…. Just reverse your whole approach and see what you get to know…cmmon! Do it honestly….
Yes, the verse is dealing with people who have committed kufr. Question to you is, now the case is those that are not convinced, are not born among a Messenger and do not want Paradise, only want worldly life treasures. What do you think God should do to them? Send them to Hell anyway? Rationally speaking yes. But most people are not rational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc37q3Do8A4
And We did not create the heaven and earth and that between them in play . If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence – if We ever did. (Qur’an 21:16-17) He made us to experience His Paradise. Needs exist as part of the test, i.e even in need, do you stay obedient or disobey Him? What’s your point about suffering? Had God avoided this, He would just sit still. Unfortunately, you can’t stop an Almighty Being from doing anything. He did it, and now we the needy powerless creation has to accept it. But He stopped and asked us (Qur’an 33:72) whether we want to taste this temporary suffering for eternal blessing out of generosity. Our answer was obvious because you are standing here right now.