i think if it’s a made up fairy tale and the schools teach it as fact it matters a lot.
would you like your children to be taught that aliens made the pyramids?
How would anyone know what really influenced the writers?
Are you saying they didn't?
We all know from revisionist history that evil white Europeans traveled through a peaceful world bringing murder and mayhem wherever they settled, overthrowing complex structured native societies, bringing down their vast centuries old archives of learning in centuries old universities carved out of mountains, to make aggregate for roads.
/s I think