I personally believe that there is a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. I believe that God's initial creation in Genesis 1:1 was perfect. But as we know God delegates stuff to his created beings who have free will.
I think the "gap" between verses 1 & 2 is where in the ageless past after God's perfect initial creation in Genesis 1:1, a high ranking angel chose to rebel against God taking a bunch of angels with him. Science and physical reality attest to the darkness in the universe and "the big bang". I believe that big bang was the catastrophic fall of the angel Lucifer (Satan) (Isaiah 14:12-15 "son of the morning"; Ezekiel 28:13-19 "the anointed cherub that covers") (note: cherubs are mighty angels, not the cartoonist chubby things in pictures) that brought darkness and death and hell into God's creation. I also believe this period between verse 1 & 2 was when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Hence in Genesis 1:2, some eons later, we see "darkness" and "the deep" as God went about to bring light and life into the lifeless darkness. God doesn't focus much on this stuff - not much explanation in the Bible. This is because His main activity then and now is redemption, accomplished by Jesus Christ on the cross. All of time and eternity turns on the cross of Christ. The rest is just interesting side stuff.
You “read much more into” Scripture than I do. There’s no way that I, as a scientist, feel qualified to “tweak” Scripture to accommodate things like angels, gaps, dinosaurs, and Lucifer — especially since I find no mention of them in the first four verses — which is all I’m addressing...