The story of Midas makes no sense

[Pat Mustard]

I guess every (old) fairytale doesn't make sense. Snow White - a beautiful girl runs away from her stepmother and lives with dwarves but then her stepmom finds her and kills her until she resurrects when a handsome prince kisses her.
Red Riding Hood: a girl dressed in red visits her grandmother who is actually a wolf in drag so that girl doesn't recognize him and he can eat her.

They make so little sense that people today make whatever they want with them, like Freud and alike who tried to explain them as some subconscious sexual musings.

People were perhaps dumber in the past, or stories lose meaning with time, and the stories that we find interesting today will make no sense for people in thousands of years in the future.

Most of the Brothers Grimm stories were about one thing, sex. It's just that the Grimms came along and bowdlerised them to remove anything even remotely sexual and as a result most of the stories lost their meaning. The two boyos were Victorians displaced two hundred years back into the past.