Whether you agree with the president or not having ultimate decision authority of what is or isn't classified

I mean, this is kind of the point of being the highest executive position of the country.

Anyone above the President just affirms the deep state's existence, and we should all be rejecting that notion of normalization.

The President is the authority, period, and always should be except when a check to his power is needed, from either judicial or legislative...and has nothing to do with classification of files.