Lovely lovely lovely writing. Hits on a lot of ideas that were rattling in my head as well.
Tangentially, I think there's something magical to earnestness, to taking seriously, very seriously, in a fully genuine and sincere way, an absolutely dogshit fully stupid idiot idea or concept and follow it to its conclusion and yet farther still. My favorite genre of any form of media are medias that do this with their premises or worldbuilding, but it works for everything else in a work as well I think. It's like... Don't chicken out just because what you're making doesn't fit in with what has already been made, don't try to make it more palatable, really, absolutely commit to the bit.