I don’t believe I am “Smarter” than Tosafos. But I don’t hold like their methodology, just as I am not too keen on the methodology of the Aruch haShulhan. My feelings on Tosafot are best described in:
Hakham Yosef Faur, “The Legal Thinking of the Tosafot: An Historical Approach,” Dine Israel, Volume VI (1975), pp. xliii-lxxii.