There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
Once upon a time there was no Time.
History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.
Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.