Christianity literally said "love thy neighbor, do unto others, love thy enemy", and still its followers have fought wars and murdered people. I seem to remember that the Quran says "if you kill one person you kill the whole world". That passage apparently is not as prioritized as others. I could go on.
God / The ancient israelites knew that telling people doesn't quite do it. Ref the 10 commandments. People only seem to learn from lived experience, and in some cases, the lived experience of people they respect. Hence the story is Isaac is actually a lot smarter than we give it credit for.
That's my take at least
Your knowledge in this field supersedes mine, I defer to you. I merely summarized the article in my simple understanding. Which, I feel is kinda the same as what you said, only simpler and less accurate. Thank you for the elaboration.
Also, grinds my gears is an expression, and so is gets my goat. Yet clichés make us all dumber so I decided to grab the readers attention with a mangled metaphor, hoping it would draw smiles and further attention.