Free will: means vs ends

Some possibilities regarding the path of our life:

1 The path of our life is unknowable prior to each individual choice, even to God.

… this idea maximizes our free will but denies God’s infinite knowledge.

2 The path of our life is already known to God, in every single step.

… we have to wrestle with how God can know what we will do & yet we can freely choose.

3 The path of our life is already known and ordained by God.

… maximizes God’s control, but we have no free will in reality.

4 There is not one single path: every possible path is represented before God.

… God is “God of all the metaverses”

… but, how does this make the path I know about meaningful?

In my experience, few people actually believe scenario 1 in practicality. And, when we ask for God’s guidance, we are by implication thinking of stage 2 and 3. But isn’t scenario 4 really less about the path (“which path is less painful” for example), and more about how God is forming us and our character on any given individual path?