I've never considered Genesis to contain any literal truth, but I think it's a reasonable way of looking an interesting aspect of the material/objective universe from a
spiritual perspective.
So I look only for a meaningful and useful spiritual message.
This makes the "temptation" part suspect to me. The rational "cause and effect" appears to be reversed.
Or the controlling entity was acting
very badly.
Occam's Razor suggests the book was written by religious professionals who were very interested in achieving a high status in society, and being well paid for their "work". So they took a more logical story and wove in something so sell that ...
... making it worse as a "morality story", and recording one of the earlier examples of corrupt humans messing up a good moral principle to benefit themselves at everyone else's expense.
The problem with framing "the great temptation" that way is that it's an issue between a supposedly "good" controlling entity and the controlled entities (humanity). But such an issue make no sense - it's actually the usual relationship between the
villain and the hero, with the snake as a minion.
If humanity must struggle against the moral difficulties inherent in our nature (the individual adult's moral choice between good and bad behavior), it makes no sense to set a trap that's sprung
before our becoming
able to make such a choice, and "punishes" by making us able to make that choice, and immediately casting us unprepared into a much harsher environment.
It's no wonder there's so little agreement on what it means
A "Temptation, (wrong) Choice, Fall, Redemption" arc makes for a good story, but it's sensitive to poor framing. And the only fun part is the redemption. It follows that the source and form of the temptation have to be chosen very carefully - I don't think that's done well in Genesis.
OT though - it makes a bit more sense if humanity in the Garden of Eden wasn't innocent, but was created with "Original Sin".
So you can make the story work much better at the cost of an controlling entity with questionable moral values