That’s an overly simplistic way to analyze it. I’m not convinced by Ross’ interpretation, either, but this is not a good reason for rejecting it. There isn’t an exact parallel of Genesis 1 in the OT, so it’s futile to ask for another passage that uses all three words in the same way. A better start is to determine the genre of Genesis 1 from its overall literary features and ask if a metaphorical interpretation would make sense. Then you look at instances of yom where it is used metaphorically and see the contexts of those passages. Same with the other two words.
Kline’s classic 1958 paper: https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/OTeSources/01-Genesis/Text/Articles-Books/Kline_NotRained_WTJ.pdf
This is also a classic by Kline: Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony - Meredith G. Kline Resource Site
John Sailhamer’s Genesis Unbound is available electronically on Amazon for $9.99. If you don’t want to buy it, you can read a summary here, which gives you the idea.
John Walton’s Lost World of Genesis One is available electronically for $3.99 on Amazon.
Perhaps an important feature of all three scholars above is that they don’t argue that the text teaches an old universe; they just argue it doesn’t conflict with it because it’s not meant to speak to that question.