Commentaries often talk of Adam partaking because he loved Eve so much that he wanted to prevent being separated from her, and was willing to accept her fate to ensure that.
Leave it to a spiteful hag on a venom binge to trash him for it.
i believe those commentaries are accurate.
and this might be one of the multiple reasons God would offer mankind salvation but not the angels. symbolically this is similar to Jesus’ own redemptive decision or all of us, the infinite difference being He has the power to save us, Adam didn’t.