thank you for your perspective. i can find myself pretty much completely agreeing with you here. I also feel like theres the fact that (especially with a text such as Gilgamesh, which is all fragmented and lost in so many places) stories innately tend to almost always have breaks in time that we do not see, allowing us to imagine what happened in that time period. One of my favorite examples is in Hamlet (spoiler warning)
where we have this huge gap of time where Horatio and Hamlet are travelling together back to Denmark after Hamlet gets exiled. we do not know what happened between the two in that time period, but the way in which they interact afterwards definitely makes me feel like they are a gay couple. anyways uhh ye