Would like to see if you have any drawings of your 16/17 dimensional abstraction.
Anyhow, Metatron's cube has been used by some for nefarious reasons but your right it's not the same; not broken but altered. You see Metratron's cube is a sacred geometry based upon sacred ideas. When one is permitted into the Order of Melchizedek they acquire certain knowledge's that would allow them to enhance the order of things. There gods belong to us, as so to say. This is what happened at Cern years ago.
All these things are concepts, then comes philosophies until truthful understanding is acquired. The truth is a Divine force that can only be cooperated with and never made into a science as some would have.