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There were definitely more cities which were coastal that disappeared as soon as the sea level rose several tens of meters.

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Which cities? As far as I’m aware, in recorded history the only “city” being hinted at disappearing under sea was Atlantis, and even that considered to be fictional. Maybe more I’d you include the deluge myth[1]. None of those was a gradual increase in sea level.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth

Doggerland is good example. Here's a link to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Fishermen have been pulling up housing remnants, bones, fishhooks, etc for a long time out of there.

Australia too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8479739/Firs...

Doggerland was a "city" in any way we understand the term.

There's a bait-and-switch happening here.

There is a great deal of monumental stonework off western India, in 30-100 ft of water. It snags fishermen's nets.

It should be easy to see how being forced to leave your ancestral home would transmute, in the telling over millennia, into a cataclysmic event.

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