Also if you don't think you're enlightened, you probably aren't.

That’s what always bothered me about Plato’s cave.

It’s caves inside of caves all the way down.

The idea of the cave is egotistical?

I thought it implied that Plato meant philosophers more truly see the things as they are and not their shadows, and that to me sounds a bit fancy.

It implies the existence of a mind/thoughts/etc. that transcend the material.