Why are you arguing this? It's not like I'm offering some kind of controversial fringe theory. The current cosmological consensus says
Exactly. You, right along with the consensus, remain belligerently confused. Long after they had to drag Einstein, kicking and screaming, back for a second round of nonsense. Wake up. The entire theory was stolen from real scientists theorizing about Aether "lensing" and so forth long ago. Einstein knew it was stolen because he'd done the stealing. He knew "spacetime" was bullshit because he knew the Aether was absolutely necessary for any of it to work. He sold out like any overly ambitious, money grubbing, narcissistic hypocrite finding themself in the right place at an opportune moment.. and so couldn't help doing lots of self-questioning and expressing doubts later, both in public and in private. Quite the cult of personality.
As Newton, Maxwell, Tesla, Thompson, and lots of others already "knew" full well, gravity is really a push not a pull. A natural result of, indeed ubiquitous, but also locally variable Aether pressure. The "lensing" effect due to its higher density around massive objects, exactly as predicted by the identical math. Due, in turn, to IT being the actual stuff noticeably attracted towards centers of mass from all directions at once. Reverse the cause. Notice how the same effects become evident in the mirror. Simples.
No reform of modern physics shall be televised. The "Standard Model" wasn't named lightly. The well established shall always fight change like hell and try to keep the masses asleep. Some of us are just very light sleepers.