realist: There are the proverbial silver linings in the cloud. That doesn’t mean we prefer a rainstorm to sunshine.
But the answer to your rhetorical questions are, unfortunately, yes, there would have likely been more Torah in E”Y had Zionism never existed.
Granted, there are many yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael, and those are theoretically protected by the State of Israel. But witness the tens of thousands of Jews including their descendants who the Zionists intentionally stripped of their Judaism, and, through the IDF and other cultural organs continue to CH”V de-Judaize them today. Many had their mesorah intact from Bayis Rishon! Are they not part of the cheshbon?
And there are many Torah communities outside Eretz Yisrael, Lakewood for example, that are malei Torah viLomideha. They were built with Jewish blood, sweat and tears (and money). There were many areas in Eretz Yisrael that were purchased and built up by Jews well before Zionism entered the world stage. There is every reason to believe such enterprises would have multiplied had Zionism not reared its traitorous and disastrous head.
Even after Zionism became a force on the world’s political scene, Jerusalem would have become a UN-run “International city”, at worst, as envisioned in the mid 1900s. The Kosel would thus have been just as accessible, if not more so, had Zionism never come about.
Chasdei Hashem Ki Lo Samnu, there are still benefits that the State of Israel does provide, including access to the Kosel, despite the many travesties wrought by Zionism. And if you live in Eretz HaKodesh under their protection then I don’t dispute the Hakaras haTov that would then come up. But none of that justifies Zionism nor is any of these benefits possible solely because of Zionism. They hijacked the course of our history, to our tremendous detriment, and this point is largely unknown.
Besides, NK doesn’t care that the government is not run kiHalacha. Because there is no way to run, kiHalacha, a government in Eretz Yisrael until Moshiach comes BB”A. It’s like attempting to run a beis haBaal according to halacha. It’s paradoxical and absurd.