I don't think the message is that the desire for knowledge is flawed. I think the message is that not trusting God to share knowledge with us is flawed.

He specifically made us to be like himself. But we were all, "we'll figure it out ourselves thanks" but due to the limitations on epistemology we can't (or Kant). So God, knowing that life apart from Him was going to be a literal hell, cut us off from the tree of life, giving us a chance, through death to trust him again. The invitation to Godhood still exists.