I agree, but am interested in philosophical underpinnings of those who believe in intelligent design.
From mankind's perspective, these things are bad. So are hungry wolves and bears if you're in the woods with them. God's ways are not our ways. We will never understand everything He allows.
Well, "Intelligent Design" is nonsense, but your illustration above is just another variation on the 'Problem of Evil' (i.e., how can God be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good and yet permit evil to exist). The short answer is that if an all-powerful, all-knowing God exists then he isn't all-good by our standards.
PS. And the corollary to that is that if an all-powerful, all-knowing God exists then nothing is evil in his view, since nothing can exist other than what He wants to exist. Another corollary is the absence of free will - i.e., predestination.
I am sure with a tiny bit of effort you can find someone around here to go through a bunch of rhetorical acrobatics trying to explain the "Problem of Evil" some other way..
PPS. Oh, and the answer to your original question would be: Yes, they can be reconciled if the "intelligent designer" is either incompetent or malevolent.
No you aren't.