You are not that dumb.
Pence isn't that dumb either... If he quit, and allowed the incumbent president to hand pick a yes man to contest the election results, Pence would have laid the groundwork for future president/VP combinations to do the same thing. If the incumbent loses, they can tell the VP to quit, find a cronie (Giuliani, etc) to endlessly "contest the voting process/results," and stay in office... You know what that is called? - Dictatorship... This is the way Trump's homie Putin does it (A. give people no other choice on the ballot, B. sham elections where he and his cronies decide what the results are)
Can you image if Biden and Harris pulled that shit in a couple years? You would lose your ever-loving mind.
And before I get labeled a "liberal" I will throw out there that I'm a Republican who voted for Trump in 2016 and neither of them in 2020... Pence did the right thing. It's time to get over it and move forward to 2024.