He made a fruit tree exist just to be ignored. Why make a forbidden anything?
He left the serpent in the garden.
He decided to go play Minecraft (probably) while the serpent was talking to Eve.
He stayed buggered off until Eve gave the fruit to Adam too.
He played coy with them when they were hiding.
… Exactly how would things have happened if we never ate the fruit? All this worship stuff that God wants, all these rules, they only exist if we fail that first test.
It was a set up, wasn't it? God wanted a "canon" reason for worship, so he set us up. The snake was a shill.
Read more:
Did God WANT humanity to fail?