Having "Roots beyond you" is indeed a refutation of free will. You're just not seeing it that way. But you had no choice in the matter.

You didn't choose where you were born, what year, or in what culture or circumstances. Yet these things will all determine how you will think and what choices you make. In the real world, where it actually matters, these things have a huge impact. Your choices are not made in a vaccuum away from those influences, hence they are not free.

I'm not saying you don't make CHOICES. I'm not saying you don't have WILL. I'm just saying it's not FREE.

Any choice that cannot be explained by prior causes which you had no control over, can be explained by randomness. And where's the WILL in randomness?

I never said all decisions were all the same. I just said that they can ultimately be boiled down to whether they make sense or feel right. But if you're going to start complaining about my normal use of normal words like "feels" then this conversation is just going to get pointless.

Anyway, I've already previously explained all my views on free will in this longer article:

https://edward-john.medium.com/do-we-have-free-will-almost-certainly-not-4ef11c73ebce