So like Caliborn/Lord English essentially brute forced Sburb into doing what he wanted it to do i.e. giving him next to infinite power

Basically, yeah, he forced the Game into what is basically an unwinnable punishment state, and still brute forced his way through it and managed to win a boon he shouldn’t have been able to- Then got mixed into Lil Cal and sent off to the Furthest Ring at the end of it all, where he could spread his influence everywhere. Talk about a lucky sequence of events.