He didn’t have to create beauty, but He did.
We wouldn’t last two days without God’s providence.
But there is more to His creation, much, much more, than all the stuff that has to be there.
He didn’t have to create so much goodness, so much beauty. He could have created a world that was merely functional. All the little extras He included… those are the things that make life worth living.
For a truly dreadful idea, imagine a world created by human beings convinced of their own wisdom.