Why does everyone stop in the middle of the fighting to hold long monologues?

Why does everyone stop in the middle of the fighting to hold long monologues?

For example when Aineias shouts to Pandaros to shoot Diomedes who wreaks havoc upon the Trojan lines Pandaros respondes with a speach that takes up almost two pages. He speaks like an old senile man who can't follow a common thread and instead of trying to stop Diomedes he starts to go on about how shit his bow is, that he will destroy it when he gets home and how he wishes that he had a chariot.

Why did Homer have to make his heroes so autistic?

Because it's incredibly primitive storytelling.

because action is for plebs

It’s a time-honored tradition, cf. Dragon Ball Z.

Greeks couldn't into internal monologues and thoughts so they just had them say it out loud

Would you prefer 'mysterious' brooding fuckboys who can't communicate their feelings?

Back in Ancient Greece they had a little thing called "ἈΡΕΤΉ" maybe you'd know it as ARETḖ, or maybe you'd call it HONOUR. Its clear that you don't understand ARETḖ, but Homer did, and he knew it meant being a ἈΝΉΡ, or as you'd call it a MAN. Like a mountain lion growling at a plump heifer before pouncing on it, part of being a MAN is calling your opponent a "ΚΥΩΝ" , y'know a BITCH, for several pages before shoving a spear through his NIPPLE.
If you don't understand it then maybe Sappho is more your style, ΚΥΩΝ.

But the mountain lion don't stand there growling for 5 minutes while the farmer brings out his bow and shoots him.

Talking is a free action.

Because it's literally anime.