So, under ID theory, we have no expectations. Whatever we see would be compatible with it, and therefore it’s impossible to falsify or test, and therefore it’s impossible to do science with it.
Anyway, where are the abrupt pathways you are not surprised to see? We seem to have established that whale evolution, your former poster child, isn’t one of them.
Ah, so God is limited in the same way that human designers are? He sometimes can’t see the end goal and is forced to tinker around until he comes upon it. Is your deity not omniscient, then?
Why? And how do you distinguish tiny from large?