Is that not just the DM equivelant of being a murder hobo?

Nobody said they needed to attack the old man, they choose to do so themselves.

Nobody said “hey, maybe turn down the murdurhoboing?”, they chose to trick the players into attacking a god.

Reading horse shit like this turns me into such a grognard. Even when players are misbehaving these days you’re supposed to coddle them and never question their right to a power fantasy, where absolutely nothing bad ever happens to them, they’re never challenged and they’re never tricked.