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> Nicholas lost because he was good
Nikolay lost because he was retarded. In his head he had a magical lalaland where the people were peasants who are always God-fearing loyal subjects (because they just are), the industrial workers did not really existed or mattered and if there were any troubles they were created by separate troublemakers while the people were completely fine and happy.
Meanwhile strikes, protest and ultimately a complete shitshow like Bloody Sunday (1905) happen and lead to 1905 revolution.
He failed to do any meaningful reformation that could resolve the backwards centralized Russian political system and prevent the social pressure growth. The State Duma (Parliment) creation was authorized but it was more symbolic and the organ did not hold any real political power.
He started a retarded war with Japan which domestically became a political disaster because of the unprecedented naval humiliation (Tsushima), and then entered WW1 on the side that arguably would not even offer anything meaningful to gain for Russia. War does not go good, people get extremely tired of it and bolsheviks are the ones who are able to consolidate support around their promises to stop war immediately and resolve other economic and social issues.
Also the family unironically believed in mystical and magical mumbo-jumbo and thus freaks like Rasputin as well as other charlatans were kept in the close circle. Some years before Rasputin Nikolay's wife couldn't get pregnant and so they invited some French guy who did some magical rituals and managed to convince both Nikolay and his wife that now she was pregnant. Later when the birth did not occur and she was examined by a real doctor it turned out that she was not actually pregnant.