Your observations pertain to God as “final cause”. My most immediate criticism of ID is its incoherence; it’s failure to distinguish between the apparent ID required to “design” a universe, nay a reality - an existence, governed by the Laws of Physics that we discern, and the ID that is claimed to be necessary to account for a particular confluence of particles in this universe experienced by us as “life as we know it”.
The two ideas are so disparate as to be contradictory, for if God was so wise as to design a universe fit for life, why did he have to tinker with his own design to bring it about? I ask you that!
Uhhhh, because he could and loves to drive liberals mad!