Why intelligent design "proofs" are pointless

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There's one other thing that baffles me about intelligent design arguments.

Even if you believe that there is enough evidence to say the universe was designed, why does that in any way imply the creator is all powerful? Just because it can make something big and complicated, it can do anything? And knows everything? So much so that you then have to add caveats to take away some of that power to make it so it can even be consistent within itself.

So the argument fails all over the place, it requires a leap of faith to get to a designer, then another one to make up what the designer is. So why even bother with the middle step, since this is no argument at all.