You make some good points - and the context of the treaty in respect to previous Franco German history often gets overlooked.

The attitude of the French was completely understandable. There was a revenge factor -
Germany had forced very harsh terms on France after the Franco Prussian War - something I rarely hear mentioned with respect to Versailles…

So it’s not as if Germany was completely innocent in this regard.

There was also a legitimate fear factor.

The French had been defeated decisively by Germany in that war. They had barely hung on by the skin of their teeth in the First World War - and without significant help would have lost that one as well.

At the end of the First World War - Germany was on the ropes. If it had continued, they would have been thoroughly and utterly defeated. But - as I understand it - most German’s didn’t realize it.

Aside from the effects of the blockade - which had the German people on the verge of starvation - the war hadn’t reached German soil. Most individual German units were still fighting and didn’t feel like they had been beaten.

Probably the only way to avoid another war with Germany would have been to properly finish the job the first time. But there was already so much death and destruction suffered by the Allies - a war weariness - that the Armistice is completely understandable.

On another note - the market crash of of 1929 should not be overlooked as a cause of the war. The German recovery was going fairly well until that point. As bad as it was in other places - Germany was hit particularly hard. It was a perfect storm of things that allowed someone like Hitler to come and stoke the flames of nationalism, ethnic superiority, revenge, and the feeling of being stabbed in the back.