Longer Lasting Granada?

[Abdul Hadi Pasha]

You're mistaken. What you describe is the situation at the end of the 18th c, not the 15th & 16th, when the empire was at its height. Compared to the Ottoman Empire, France and Britain in this period were a collection of independent counties. Centralization does not preclude deposition of a Sultan. In the Ottoman system, you had to have the ability to rule to have the right. There were no Louis XVIs in the early Ottoman Empire - that's one reason it did so spectacularly well.

As for succession crises, give me a break! Almost all the warfare experienced by Europe until the modern age was succession crises! England was one gigantic succession crisis for over a century in this period. Henry VIII? Elizabeth?

And no, 1453 is the end of the Middle Ages, not 1492. 1453 saw the end of the Roman Empire and the conclusion of the 100 Years War. 1492 was well into the Renaissance.

re the "centralized Ottoman state" claimed here: we're talking about the same state where at eleven times, the ruling sultan was deposed. Where local governors operated with little regard for the guy in charge in Constantinople and which had the decidedly decentralizing millet system in place.

And then there are the various succession crises to consider.

The only two countries in Europe with some degree of centralization at the end of the Middle Ages were France and England, thanks to over a hundred years of war.
There was an attempt of centralization in the Burgundian territories (inspired by France), but attempts to continue that by the Habsburgs were partly responsible for the Dutch Revolt later on, indicating how people were attached to their own privileges.