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>more complicated, less philosophically elegant character
What necessitates that God be simple? If you believe in the Abrahamic God then you know that your ideas about him can never compare with revelation and that he is not able to be fully grasped. In fact it's quite a big problem to invent things about him just because you like it that way for whatever arbitrary reason.
>Why would you imagine a personality with seemingly arbitrary, alien values as the eternal foundation of all existence if you don't have to?
Why would you imagine a deity at all? If a person believes in God he must do it because he is convinced by that reality and not because it makes him feel nice. Also omnibenevolence implies a bunch of arbitrary values too. Usually it's just whatever the person talking about it wants to be the case. It's like saying because you like vanilla ice cream then it just must be a good thing that God also must like