Jesus was not a priest.
Jesus was in conflict with the religious authorities of his day. His comments about them could not be described as complementary.
Jesus never "ordained" anyone.
Jesus always considered himself to be a loyal Jew.
After the destruction of the Temple with its Aronaic priesthood, Judaism continued -- thank you very much -- without clergy.
Saint Peter didn't know that he was a Pope. The Apostles didn't know they were bishops.
The various scandals and abuses in the long history of the Church have almost always been caused by clergy.
The current structure of the Church is a way that it can be, not the way it always was; and not the way it must be.
How the Church will be constituted in the future, I have no idea.
But the time of the clergy is slowly passing. It doesn't work very well any more.
While it will not happen in our lifetimes, a future iteration of Catholic Christianity will be without clergy