they were still technically human as in breedable. it would be like a great dane, normal humans are like chihuahua up to alsatian. the difference in size is almost double from there up. that's why they called them giants.
it is hybrid vigor that made them so dangerous. they could throw around normal humans like we can throw around 2 year old children. and imagine how much food they needed for such a big body, i mean like, one cow would last a nephilim like a week, where it would feed a whole family for a season of normal modern humans.
out of all the crazy sounding stories, the ones about giants are the least crazy. i mean, it's not like gulliver's travels but a man at 12 feet tall is scary as fuck. even if he's a skinny weakling he's still gonna be impossible to defeat without luck and skill. they were already becoming very rare by the time of David, most likely goliath was only like 10 foot tall. if you are a psycho bitch and good at strategy and you got guys like that, it would be trivial to dominate ordinary homo sapiens. even neanderthals were a problem for sapiens. but these guys were something else.
i might be misremembering, but i think they actually found bones of an extraordinarily tall human a little while back. the angel people were not so ridiculous, more like 7-8 foot tall.
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actually, i think that was at the center of why the non-fallen angels were so against it. firstly, they just dominated and threatened the human women they "took as wives" which is disgusting by itself, but the progeny were dangerous and probably cultivated to be violent pets by the fallen angels. i'm guessing that probably in most cases they gained physique but didn't especially gain so much in intelligence. or at least, they dominated them while they were still relatively small. probably also, the women often died in childbirth as well because of them being substantially larger, i'd be guessing that probably they were typically in the range of the biggest infants you see today, which can cause a lot of complications in birth.
so there is a lot of reasons why it would be objectionable, most of them to do with the mindset, but probably some degree of physical issues as well.
Giants are certainly easy enough to prove as plausible.
And yes, I would agree with your assessment about most of them, but if you dig deeper, the first generations birthed things like the Titans and many of the little g gods, and then the demigods where the Rapheim. (I can never spell that correctly.) That mostly tracks with most mythologies I am aware of, like Tiemat birthing all sorts of monsters and being called something akin to the "Mother of all demons."
