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This exactly! Fanfiction, when it's not just daydreaming, is opinionated critical analysis (if it's really engaging with the original story) or turning elemets of it into cultural symbols, which no one thinks is "cringe" when someone does it with old mythology.
It seems like a lot of ancient cultures often reinterpreted their myths, without much concern about what was "canonical" so long as it was still recognizable.
Now, though, and I wonder if Abrahamic religion has something to do with this, everyone's so obsessed about ownership of a story. It's got to be exactly as the original teller told it or it's wrong.