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However, while singers found the ascending melodic minor easy to sing, descending downward proved problematic and the more easily sung natural minor was used when descending.
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Now you are talking semantics.
'proved problematic' 'minor was easier to sing'
These are just substitutions of the words I used, 'sounds better' with a bit of personal spin on them.
Instead of saying that the Melodic Minor defied the Mathematics because it sounded better, you are portraying that as being because it was easier or harder.
Regardless, it DID defy the mathematics, there is NO mathematical reason that the Melodic Minor should have had a Sharpened 6th and 7th while ascending, it was done for musical reasons alone.
Whether that is done using my terms of sounding better, or your terms of being easier, is not relevent.
This goes perfectly to my point that Music does not adhere to some mathematical rule. We have created some mathmematical rules to help us explain music and understand what it is about music that works for us, but that is all we have done.