i dont know wolf
why dont you study the sugya wolf and learn what the meforshim say or ask a Talmid Chchom to explain to answer your speculations. i am not a Talmid Chochom.
if Rabbi Miller, tz’l said it was a test it was a test. he didnt make things up out of thin air. why dont you think about it and see if you can come up with a possible explanation