Why Matzah?

I'm working on a Torah idea so I'm just going to float this out there:

 

There is a bit of a confusing mixed message in the Hagaddah -- the matzah is listed in one place as commemorating the bread we ate on the way out of Egypt when we had no time to wait and let the dough rise, and yet, earlier on, it is spoken of as being the bread that our forefathers ate while still IN Egypt.

So which is it? Is something special about the lack of rising time? Wouldn't be something they had gotten used to eating while slaves?

The way I see it, they ate it in Egypt because they had to. They had little and were not given time to enjoy eating food, so, as poor people with a paucity of ingredients, they ate matzah. It was a bread of poverty and affliction, and someone else's control over their time.

One would think that the Exodus would solve that! God says, "I'm getting you out, so relax and have a real slice of bread..." but the people, carrying that mentality of servitude run for the hill and now make matzah because they didn't know HOW to wait. They were conditioned. Unlike their dough.

Fast forward to the desert and the construction of the tabernacle. God commands that 12 loaves of showbread (lechem hapanim) are in the tabernacle each week. They are matzot (chabad.org has a nice article on them) but now they signify time and servitude to God, not man.

So at the seder, we eat them to bridge this gap. We WERE slaves to Pharaoh and eat the matzah that he forced us to eat, but then we left to serve God and channeled that sense of rushing not away, but towards, using the weekly Shabbat as a way to turn the bread of affliction to a demonstration of loyalty to Hashem.

We can take even a mark of our lowest descent and use it to signify our wish to rise to the highest heights.