Yes, I understand that.

But if the lifespan of soft tissue can be extended far past the point where it should have decayed, there's no reason why there couldn't be a way to preserve it almost indefinitely.

Blood vessels are after all made up of a lot of components that don't decay easily.

Fossilization takes an improbable event that has less chance of happening than winning the lottery.

Yes, this is true. However it is only true for each individual organism. If you take into account the number of organisms that have died, you will end up with a lot of fossils. However, there is no guarantee you will be able to find a sample of everything.

This is why we haven't got a complete fossil record.

At least that was Richard Dawkins answer for why the fossil record lacks all of these intermediaries theists demand.

The fossil record that we do have is full of transitional fossils (I'm assuming this is what you meant by intermediaries?)

Here are a few examples. I'll link the article for you at the end.

-Most fossil giraffes have short necks and today's have long necks, but anatomist Nikos Solounias of the New York Institute of Technology's New York College of Osteopathic Medicine is preparing a description of a giraffe fossil, Bohlinia, with a neck that is intermediate in length.

-Tiktaalik, aka the fishibian or the fishapod, is a large scaled fish that shows a perfect transition between fins and feet, aquatic and land animals. It had fish-like scales, as well as fish-like fin rays and jaw and mouth elements, but it had a shortened skull roof and mobile neck to catch prey, an ear that could hear in both land and water, and a wrist joint that is like those seen in land animals.

-Scientists know that mastodons, mammoths and elephants all share a common ancestor, but it gets hard to tell apart some of the earliest members of this group, called proboscideans, going back to fossils from the Oligocene epoch (33.7 million years ago to 23.8 million years ago). The primitive members of this group can be traced back to what Prothero calls "the ultimate transitional fossil," Moeritherium, from the late Eocene of Egypt. It looked more like a small hippo than an elephant and probably lacked a long trunk, but it had short upper and lower tusks, the teeth of a primitive mastodon and ear features found only in other proboscideans.

https://www.livescience.com/3306-fossils-reveal-truth-darwin-theory.html

And then we magically see 10 intermediaries on a chart.

The intermediaries we cannot find can still be charted using educated guesswork. We have the start point and the end point, and we often have at least one transitional fossil. So, scientists can normally make a good guess, which may or may not be disproven when the rest of the fossils are unearthed.

LOL daaaaammmmmnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! I think he won't believe in fossils, until he finds one all by himself.