Everyone is a Buddha
I used to be really erudite when it came to Mahayana Buddhism but I was turned off by how long they say it takes to actually become enlightened. If you become a bodhissatva you have to have a bunch of reincarnations in hell in order to rescue all the unenlightened people until everyone becomes enlightened lol.
I also don't think that life is just suffering. It's just really depressing man. I even memorized hundreds of lines in the shurangama mantra a few years ago but I could never get really into meditation. That is the most sacred mantra in all of Great vehicle Buddhism according to some authorities but I could never understand what the frak it meant
If you are really interested in buddhism you might want to look into the pure land traditions. You can recite Guanyin/Avolkitesvera's bodhissatvas name or Amanitabha Buddhas name one time and you automatically get to be reborn in the Pure Land where everyone is super high and blissful all the time and become enlightened super fast there.
I agree that buddhism is not always well represented. It is certainly not nihilism as some would have you believe. It can get pretty dogmatic though.
I think buddhas took a lot of mushrooms
Personally, I'm more into paganism