There's a very subtle distinction which most sikhs and hindus don't notice !
Guru Gobind Singh ji made it very clear when he said "Tae hi durga saaj ke daitan da naas karaya" (You created durga and destroyed the daits) .
I have an english pdf of 10 main upanishads (central layer of vedas). It does speak of vedic gods, but somehow everytime converges to "brahm" (one god waheguru ) . Reading those english translation of upanishads make my faith in SGGS stronger lol.
There's a hindu concept of shiva-shakti (which finds several mention in SGGS too ) . Shiva is consciousness, and shakti is manifestation . Shiv is nirgun saroop, shakti is nature which gives birth to forms.
So shiv was considered male, shakti was considered female. Shakti could destroy also tyrants. Hence durga form. All hindu gods are symbolism of a deeper abstraction and point to brahm only.
In ashtapadi 21 of sukhmani sahib, Guru Arjan dev ji says :
"Jab nirgun prabh sahaj subhaaye, tab siv sakt kahu kit thae"
(When formless lord was all by himself, where was shiva-shakti).
Hence , gurmat accepts existence but not worship of compartmentalized and divided forms of god in form of various dieties
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