I think this question goes right along with what’s already being discussed in the ‘origins of Yahweh’ thread.
I haven’t read your links, but even just based on your commentary and questions here, I gather this would be an excellent example of the divine accomodation to any/all cultures wherever they are at, to “move their needle” toward the true God. In other words, instead of entirely overturning an entire set of cultural practices about what a god or gods are or are supposed to be, God inserts “himself” (there’s an example of a specific cultural accomodation right there) into their practices of thinking of gods as members of this world, perhaps living up on this or that mountain, hurling down their lightning bolts from there, or needing to be appeased by this or that fertility rite, and so forth. God enters ‘himself’ into that pantheonic array as ‘merely’ one of the competitors at first, even though we would now say that we have been granted a much fuller understanding that God is not merely one among any many - or even an elite few.
That isn’t to say that Asherah is just a different name for the true God - I think the scriptures are clear that all these are false gods. But it is to say that whatever practices people had, as they related to whatever gods - some of those practices (like making sacrifices to them) were then used and appropriated by God for a season as God made use of the sorts of developed practices and awareness that people were able to grasp at the time.
[And some practices thoroughly repudiated by God as abominable and with strict commands to the chosen that they were to utterly put away from themselves what their cultural neighbors were doing, such as human sacrifice. …perhaps a good example of a demanded ‘needle jump’ that even the chosen haltingly struggled with in their own unfortunate chapters of disobedience.]