benignuman:
I left out two points in my last post:
1)Reish Lakish is just as shver according to your explanation.
2)The Ben Yehoyada advances a similar explanation to yours, also based on the Arizal. However he prefaces it by saying ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ??????. In other words he (and the Chasam Sofer that I mentioned earlier) is saying that your pshat is not the pashtus. And the reasons for saying it are not hechrechim from the sugya, inasmuch as kabbalistic stuff.