See, my friend, how the Kabbalists criticize all the great philosophers with the severity befitting the King of Kings. They treat them as if they oppose the words of our sages, who said, "You alone are God," as mentioned earlier. May the Merciful One protect us from such foreign beliefs! I have seen that the Lord teaches the students in the portion of Jethro, where it is stated that the angels were created before the creation of heaven and earth.
He brings his words in the Ba'al Haturim's commentary on Numbers 8, and it seems that he wrote it that way. It is a reasonable assumption, and it supports the precision of the blessing "Blessed is He who spoke and the world came into being." And you have seen that his precision is even greater, as we do not originally have the version "Blessed is He who creates the beginning," as written by Maharitz in section Etz Chayim.
Even according to their version, it is not necessary to conclude that the angels were not called "beginning." According to the words of our sages in Bereishit Rabbah, it is more logical. Furthermore, their words are words of tradition, and we should not delve too much into the matters of Aggadah that do not have practical implications, for our goal here is to clarify the true essence of the Creator according to our holy Torah and the tradition of our sages and transmitters, in order to understand what Israel should do when reciting the Shema twice a day, "Hear, O Israel," and "The Lord, our God, helps me," and so on....