This.
All players play against teams from different pools in qualifiers. It's not like Portugal deliberately keep arranging friendlies against minnows to 'stat pad' for Ronaldo.
He's just playing against the exact same level of opponents, in the same competitions, as all his contemporaries do. He just happens to have been a fantastic player and a prolific scorer, and that annoys a lot of people who dislike him.
That's it.
I had to listen to the same kind of attempts to downplay / undermine all his goals and achievements, mostly from Man United haters, during his first spell with us. Every fantastic shot from distance was poor goalkeeping, or selfish to shoot. Every penalty / free kick didn't count as a 'proper goal'. Every goal against smaller PL or CL teams was flat-track bullying, etc...
After 20 years, and 800+ goals, and the same attempts from some to downplay each of his goals is
still going on!