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In addition to your thoughts and findings above, I'd like to add a chapter from Zech 7 that I consider important regarding celebrating the feasts outside of Father's prescribed instructions.

Consider the following Chapter (Zech. 7):

1 In the fourth year of King Darius, (Darius came after Cyrus the Great), the word of YHVH came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.
2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, together with their men, to entreat YHVH
3 by asking the priests of the house of YHVH of hosts and the prophets, "should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years"
4 Then the word of YHVH of hosts came to me:
5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
7 Are these not the words YHVH proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?' "
8 And the word of YHVH came again to Zechariah:
9 "This is what YHVH of hosts says: 'execute true right-ruling; show mercy and compassion to your brothers.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.'
11 "But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and stopped up their ears.
12 They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the TORAH or to the words that YHVH had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So YHVH was very angry.
13 " 'When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says  YHVH.
14 'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.' "


When I read this chapter, I can't help but sense the Father's tone when answering the people of Bethel after their return to the Land. "Hello?....'Execute true right-ruling' ...is that not obvious enough?"

It is also important to recognize that He says to show mercy and compassion to our brothers. While many "brethren" disagree on how to follow much of the Torah today, we are to show compassion on others until YHVH writes the Torah on our hearts causing ALL of His people to KNOW how to walk in His ways.

If I'm missing something here in interpreting this chapter, please inform me. I just wanted you to consider what Zechariah has written in regards to the feasts.