Salaamun 'alaikum,
It is our ego that makes us want to think that we are God's best creation, and everything centers around us. And we elevate fellow humans like us as having a special partnership with God, the Creator of the vast cosmos, in which we are an insignificant bunch.
Still God cares about us, and has counted each and every one of us and guides us to connect back with Him (19:93-95). This is God's infinite love and mercy. We have the potential to be included among God's best creatures, if we truly do what is repeated over and over in the Quran - be faithful and lead a righteous life. Or else, we are lost, and suffer the ignominy of being among God's worst creatures.
I did not understand #2, but 30:11 suggests that judgement is once, when we all return to God.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
#1
Indeed the creation of the skies and the land is greater than the creation of the human being, but most people do not realize it. [40:57]
And among His signs is the creation of the skies and the land, and the creatures He has spread in them. And He has the ultimate power to summon them all when He wills. [42:29]
And to God prostrates everything in the skies and everything on the land from all the creatures and the angels, and they are never arrogant. [16:49]
We indeed created the human being in the best design.
Then We debased him to the lowest of the low.
Exempted are those who have faith and lead a righteous life, then they will have an unending reward.
[95:4-6]
Indeed, the unfaithful from amongst the People of the Scripture and those who set up partners for god will be in the fire of Gehenna eternally. They are the worst creatures.
Indeed the faithful who lead a righteous life, they are the best creatures.
Their reward at their Lord is Gardens of Eden with flowing streams beneath them, wherein they abide forever. God will be pleased with them and they will be pleased with Him. Such is the reward for the one who fears his Lord.
[98:6-8]
#2
God initiates the creation, then repeats it, then to Him you will all return. [30:11]
Peace.