The wording of your post does not make much sense, but from trying to understand it.
There is no evidence that Those Who Sit In Shadow are part of the Demiurge. We have no idea where they come from. We have no idea how powerful they were. He did defeat them since they were powerless to stop him and were implied to be heavily tied to the Loom of Fate. There are more subtle forms to power besides two fists sluggin it out.
That a lot of that power comes from the outside does not matter. Once it is within Thor it is part of him and therefore his power. The Odinforce alone makes Thor as powerful as Odin or Zeus and more powerful than pretty much anyone on Earth or short of Galactus in space. The knowledge of the runes greatly enhanced Thor's knowledge of the universe especially of life and death. He learned how to use the Odinforce much more efficiently. So whereas King Thor would have tried to blast Mangog into nothingness Rune Thor simply dissolved him by undoing the spell that created him. Knowledge of the runes granted Thor knowledge of the truth of Those Who Sit in Shadow and of the nature of Asgard.
The Loom of Fate was the means Those Who Sit in Shadow controlled the destiny of the Gods of Asgard. Thor was somewhat outside of this because he was of both Asgard and Earth and giving him a mortal identity further outside of their control. Destroying the Loom of Fate was supposed to end the cycle of Ragnarok and free them to pursue their own destinies. This is what Thor intended when he brought back Asgard on Earth. It is also one reason Loki can be something other than a villain. At least, that was the point of all of this. Other writers have sort of changed some elements of it back.
A strong argument could be made that Odin had the same power and knowledge as Rune Thor. He sacrificed his eye and hung on the world tree for the same knowledge and already possessed the Odinpower. However, Thor's earthly nature allowed him to do what Odin could not and break the cycle. Further, Rune Thor displayed a level of maturity Odin often lacks.
So yes, Rune Thor is incredibly powerful. The Odinpowered grantes Thor raw might. The runes grant him insight into the universe to better understand its cycles to manipulate those and better control over the Odinforce so he can do things he could not have done before. Instead of trying to hammer everything into submission like he often tries he learned how to adjust the flow of events to produce the outcome he desires and approach things from other ways instead of direct, brute force.
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