HaLeiVi
“WIY, if something sounds stupid, a Rishon didn’t say it.”
It seems like he did say it and the Rishonim and gemara say many things that we dont quite grasp.
Most often the case is that the Gemara, or Rishon or Acharon says something that sounds stupid to our farshtuppedteh American brains so we just decide its wrong or crazy or stupid. I will repeat what one of my Rabbeim told me Besheim Rav Wolbe zatzal, “in the time it took a Rishon to dip his quill into ink and put it to paper to write he thought more in learning than any of us will think in our entire lifetimes!”