Sounds right, it's just an all-or-nothing gambit or both you and the major party you align with would lose big.
You'll have to appeal to the masses, get them willing to vote since voter turnout is not good, get awareness and enough energy to convince people to gamble on a vote for your third party since if each only get half of all voters on "their" side, the opposition wins. All while fighting the established party and all the funds, big names, etc. that empower it.
Heck, the US Democratic party has seemingly been willing to lose democracy than allow any progressive candidates to rise in the party.
The UPPP sucked more recovery-wise in my case, turns out I'm down 4 lbs after 1.5 weeks resting. The instructions said the throat pain would intensify over the first week but it didn't seem to get much worse for me, just bad for a few days and then slowly got better. Whether it fixes up my snoring/sleep apnea remains to be seen. Hoping it does but we will see. This would have more impact on my SO's sleep, but I do have a CPAP so I could make do with that.
the septum correction/turbinate reduction has made all the difference so far with not much pain, but I suspect I got lucky pain-wise. If I had to choose, it would be this one every day of the week.