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Yeah, the fact that all genies are bound to lamps there is dumb - one even gets created for Jafar. How does that make any sense, even in that fantastical setting? And it's not like they all have to be bound, since they can be wished free.
Jafar wished to be "the world's most powerful sorcerer." so you're right, he could have wished to be still more powerful. Or to be a free genie. Maybe there are universes where the Disney villain didn't hold the idiot ball at the end and succeeded in their plans. Now that would be an interesting "What If" series!
It's even worse than the villain being an idiot in this case IMO. It's being an idiot exactly in the right way, despite it seeming quite far-fetched.
It somehow requires that Jafar believes only a genie can be ultra-powerful, but ignores that a powerful genie is supposed to be bound.
They wanted Aladdin to win by being cunning, because it's supposed to be his main thing, and that's okay, even if they need Jafar to be an ass for a few seconds. But for this to work, Aladdin didn't just need to be cunning, he had to be a freaking psychic.
I guess Jafar thought the idea of all genies being bound by default was ridiculous, too.
To be fair, Jafar's power hungry nature and one-track mind is a real obvious character flaw.