Forget what Paul said. What did Christ say?
What Paul said is what Christ said. Why would anyone want to forget that?
As to Heaven's hierarchy, it's as difficult to imagine a forlorn longing for better, unattainable portions (and beyond time) were one to barely arrive there at all, clawing at the door jam and smelling of smoke, "as though by fire."
Eternity is a long time to mill about, even in the Big Lobby.