No offense taken whatsoever, Sir.B, but part of the whole reason for me doing this riddle was also to be able to teach, in an entirely non-condescending way, some people about the existence and the intricacies of subjects which they may not normally encounter. I therefore don't think it is the point that this is merely a riddle.

You are indeed correct that people who don't know both its and FF9s background and come up with the kind of things those people above were saying about it are seeing things in it that were not originally intended. However, that does not mean that, for those people, those meanings are not there. Any poem you read, if it speaks to you through meanings that are personal to you, may not contain any meanings that were originally intended by the poet. That doesn't mean the meanings are any less relevent or important. It all depends on the reader.