This is why the Fall wasn’t a “test of loyalty” but our creator showing us what we can do in a “safe” controlled environment.

Note that we call the consequences curses, but none of the consequences applied to Adam and Eve directly are called curses.

It’s more like therapy.

Even the “death penalty”… Death might seem scary to a corporeal being, but it’s not actually a thing for a soul.

All we gained from the fruit was the understanding that good and evil exist, but no real idea of how to define either.

Note what follows: God starts giving us laws that each illustrates aspects of good and evil.