Cheesecake in a gas oven... recipe help, please!
You are correct. Your opinion that the OP’s cheesecake recipe is not a “real” cheesecake is just exactly that— your opinion.
I have had very close to the same recipe in my family for several hundred years. The original name for it is kasekuchen: German for cheesecake. The line of Reading More May Cause Envy…