Eastern culture was so strong and best of the best and longest ever and thousands of characters. Story goes so smoothly that we think it happen and all the characters were real but as Ranger said they never walked this world. The beauty is they supported every characters with other logic and myths.
Ramayan is nothing but a story of Aryan supremacy and suppression against non-Aryan ( Dravidian ).
While Ratnaker was a DAAKU and his knowledge of geography was vast. After quitting his looting and killing job his noble work , become a writer. Most ancient writing were about kings and Emperor and their novelties and curelties, bad guy and good guy. If you ask my choice which one I will prefer between Ramayan and Mahabharat, I will go with Mahabharat. It is politics and tactics, I fight within the family and his families story.
Bhagbat geeta is so philosophical and I think Arjun even did not know what Krishna was saying but just dd it as an  student, "every things happens for reason and it is written well ahead of our birth". कर्म गर फल्को आस नगर, which is impossible and we always  expect something.