Note that the reasoning would fall flat if our universe were unique because you could still ask the “lucky coincidence” or “deeper explanation” questions. Much as a potent explanation for why the shop has your shoe size requires that the shelves be stocked with many different sizes, and much as a potent explanation for why there’s a planet situated at a bio-friendly distance from its host star requires planets orbiting their stars at many different distances, so a potent explanation of nature’s constants requires a vast assortment of universes endowed with many different values for those
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The reasoning here is plain awful and the analogy terrible. A better analogy would be if your shoe size were 2,765.990651 while the manufacturer only produced up to 14. No matter how many ways you packed the store, the chances of finding a show that fit would be nil. Therefore, if you find your size, you rightfully conclude that someone intentionally created those shoes and placed them there.
