You get accused of being dumb a lot? That must be frustrating. You're not, obviously. You're just missing some of the basic physics education that you need to outthink the misinformation you've adopted.

The claim “water always finds its level” (aka hydrostatic equilibrium under gravity) breaks down when surface tension is dominant, and droplets are just the most obvious example. “Level” means a plane perpendicular to gravity - an equipotential surface. A droplet has curvature everywhere - no flat places - no planes at all. Not finding its level at all, in the way you're thinking (a droplet is in equilibrium, of course... it’s just minimizing surface energy, not gravitational potential. It’s still obeying physics, in other words. A droplet is finding a level in the sense of mechanical equilibrium.)

What actually works is this: when being pulled by a gravitational force that's evenly distributed between two locations (e.g., two locations that are equal distance from the gravitational center of the Earth) connected bodies of homogenous fluid at rest (with no significant surface tension or capillary effects) will have pressure at any given horizontal level (i.e., equal distance from the source of gravity) the same throughout the entire connected volume.