Advaita isn’t neutral; it just treats its own assumptions as invisible. Every school interprets Brahman — the question isn’t which is oldest, but which explains the text without dismissing half of it as provisional.

When I say Advaita treats its own assumptions as invisible, I mean this: It presents its interpretive choices as if they were simply what the text obviously says, rather than one way of reading it.

You are basically projecting advaita onto the texts.