I think you need to view it through the lens of a person from when it was made. Consider that it was the first structure to be built by engineers, not architect

I think you need to view it through the lens of a person from when it was made. Consider that it was the first structure to be built by engineers, not architects (that’s revolutionary) and it gave a top-down view of the city, something never possible before. We take all of this for granted much like we take most of modern life for granted. But the Eiffel Tower marked the beginning of modernism. Look at a lot of visual art from that era - it features the Eiffel Tower for instance. It was a shocking structure for its time. It was the beginning of the mechanical and Industrial Age. Just fascinating.