Why Would God Hide?

[Smaug]

Tonus, I understand that the purpose of the fable was to explain language diversity, but the interesting thing is not that it has discrepancies or weird (by modern standard) aspects but that it's still believed in a more or less literal way by many people. The most interesting aspect is not the purely mythological.

By the way, though the his frame of mind wasn't specified explicitly there sill wasn't any clear reason for him to interfere.

God was afraid of his own creations wanting to go meet and greet him in mortal person. meaning god himself is a physical being and spiritual and can die so i'm guessing if one of the people had ill will to god you can see what i'm getting at.
In reality a tower that tall could in now way exist not to mention the change in atmosphere would be enough to kill someone going all the way up. or they die from extreme exhaustion walking up steps.

I'm arguing whithin the myth so I put aside real world technical considerations. Your idea sounds quite interesting in that respect.

Speaking of the real world, it's mind-boggling that there are still people who both have access to all kinds of easily-accessible information (including that on the Internet) and take these fables as literal truth even if they do so only to an exent.