“This doesn’t stop anyone from giving alternate Pshatim in the Pasuk and it’s fine. The Ralbag is not really taking on Chazal head on. He wants to give a Pshat that satisfies him.”
The Ralbag is not simply giving an alternate pshat in the pesukim; he is giving an alternate pshat in the reality of what happened – he is saying that it can’t have happened because H’ would never do such a thing.