Mass is a shrinking of space and a slowing of time.
Pure common sense makes that brain-dead obvious.
That fits exactly with what we observe and measure.
'Warp' is a misguided and misleading term that indicates confusion.
If space around a black hole weren't shrunken there would be a traffic jam of matter caught in the molassas of time dilation/relative-slowing.
We would see lots of stuff caught/dragging in time dilation molassas all over, everywhere there's mass
Light [& matter] can get through the proximity of an event horizon because because there's proportionately exactly as much space shrinkage as there is time slowing.
Light makes exactly the same [external frame] geometric progress from any viewpoint.
"Because of the extreme warping of time around a black hole, we can also never hope to see the event horizon itself."
Light that doesn't actually cross the event horizon moves right back out to us just fine (maybe redirected from our frame of reference) because of the reduced space of a mass field.