I do believe the account was written and is history - “traditions” are internet memes found on sites of who-knows-what validity.
True enough, but that same history your cite claims they did everything in Egypt with stone pounders and not much else. Everybody knows that’s nonsense, but they don’t have an archaeologically acceptable answer to that. So they don’t talk about it at all.
This is one reason the nutbars & cranks fill the void - “I’m not saying it was aliens, but...” When they aren’t writing UFO books, they are probably rehashing the Kennedy assassination. He was hit by a small meteor is the current theory, probably.