Everyone needs to realize those guys have all legitimately shelved been for age/health reasons.

Paulie no longer has a no-show job at Barone by series end, it has been consolidated and sold to Cinelli Sanitation (Lupertazzi controlled) by Jason Barone after Dick Braone dies. As I stated in my earlier post, Paulie is subject to at least 1 murder that Carlo knows about, plus his bookmaking. That alone without any proof of legitimate income and his decades of criminal history nets him heavy jail time in any successful RICO case against the Soprano's. Paulie unfortunately likely dies in jail when named by Carlo in a RICO trial.

As for Murf, Uncle Pat and Bebby, they hold zero weight on the street or honestly anywhere else for that matter to those who didn't know them personally. There is non-existent respect for Junior Soprano or any of his one time crew members by shows end. Anyone with junior who intended to stay in the picture realigned with Tony's crew much earlier on after the power struggle. Bobby literally comes to Tony hat in hand "to the victor goes the spoils".
Murf Lupo? He was semi-retired to Florida and seemingly moves there full time to live out his years by shows end, nobody ever asked him a single question regarding anything or anyone. He was seemingly a higher ranking associate of Junior's once upon a time who in a hypothetical timeline of who becomes boss after Tony maybe dies, ins't even talked about in discussion. Zero percent chance Murf takes over even simply in name as an advisory capacity figurehead, even if he stayed in Florida full time. He was essentially semi-retired/shelved for the nearly the entire series, and surely long out of the picture by shows end. He flies up from Florida on his own money to check on Junior as an old friend, not as his dying once Capo, he is far removed from his days of power, if he ever really had any.
It's the same reality with Bebby who is another of Juniors guys who falls completely out of any power he may've had. Also Bebby as underboss was labelled as "ailing in health" and after his sentence, who knows if he lived or was doing 20+ years, all we know for sure is there is never a mention of him after season one and he surely isn't in contention as boss, if he hasn't passed away already from health.

Lastly Uncle Pat, had been shelved over a decade for health reasons, yes the hiccups story was meant to be amusing, but the fact remains the guy isn't healthy enough to live unsupervised, yes he was surely a stand up guy, man's man type, but that doesn't change the fact that he's in his 80s but this time and certainly isn't being asked to come out of being health retirement he asked for just to weather the storm for the Family.

Even Larry Barese at his age is left with uncertainty in the show going back to retrial for the '99 RICO case he got a mistrial in

These are people likely not even contacted directly with information about Tony and Phil having a war, or the casualties or the war. Does anyone here really think Patsy, Benny, Walden, Little Paule etc at any point maybe called Murf in Florida to ask advice or even just keep him informed? Or Visit Beppy/Larry in jail for advice.

I think the harsh reality is that no major older character seemingly could make it past a RICO trial with Carlo as the key witness. We all want some/all to beat the case but if without Silvo and Bobby to convict, if Tony does really get murdered any RICO case against the family comes down that much harder on top guys left, like Paulie, Patsy, etc. Carlo rolls on everyone that isn't dead yet, and with that the only guys left are the younger guard. The background characters we know little about but begin to see more frequently as the show concludes.

Whenever I come to this conclusion I can't help but think that Chris would have literally inherited the entire family if he makes it to the end of the show and NY doesn't have him killed as well in the process like Bobby and SIl. He was the highest up, while also being the youngest with no legitimate criminal history to date, Chris likely would have taken over the Family if still alive even from jail as his sentence would have been most lenient for lack of criminal history. But again, simply food for thought, it's just fan theory.