Yes, I’m asking why we were created.

I have no idea. Maybe in order to perform commandments.

I don’t understand—what do you mean, maybe?! Could it be that God wants us to put on tefillin, but that’s not why we were created?
In other words, could it be that God created something without a purpose?

I’m familiar with the approach you mentioned, that God doesn’t care about what happens, but you can’t hold both that and the view that God does want us to put on tefillin.

The fact that He wants us to put on tefillin doesn’t mean that’s why we were created.

What do you mean? Just to make sure: He created us for no particular reason and then decided what He wants from us?

Or did our creation just sort of slip out, and then He thought about what He could do with us?

Ah, maybe you mean that He created us for things other than the commandments, and for Jews He has an additional side-demand, which is the commandments,
but I’ll wait for your answer and that’s that 🙂

I’m not answering this. If you’d bother to think for two seconds, you’d see I already answered.

What other reason could there be for our creation besides the will of our Creator?!

Maybe to fix some point in the sefirah of Hod within Tiferet?
Maimonides, for example, says that he doesn’t know why God created the world.
In general, maybe it’s too presumptuous for mortals—who are pleased with us today and throw us into a pit tomorrow—to think they can understand God?

We know that He commanded us to be upright and not Bibists, and that we must keep His commandments.

Could you give a reference for that Maimonides, please?

Maybe the Rabbi meant that although we were created in order to observe commandments, we don’t know what God gains from it?

Seems to me so.
It appears several times in the Guide.

And in any case, it may be that man is not the center at all, but rather matters involving seraphim, ophanim, and the like.
And us?
Maybe we’re just part of some scenery.

Who knows.
And maybe someone who rusts away simply has no ability or tools to understand.

Fine, let’s say we’re not the center. So we were created to serve as scenery, and that is exactly the purpose of our creation—to be good scenery. The whole discussion here sounds as if there is no demand being made of us, and that’s what I don’t understand.

As if there’s no connection between what is demanded of us and the purpose of our creation*

Gnats and cockroaches were created
maybe to be part of the food chain, maybe for a few other benefits.
It may be that they don’t understand this.
And they will never be able to understand the Creator’s will.
It may be that, with the tools they have for imagining, they imagine that they are the most important thing in the world and that everything was created for them.

So what?
Bottom line, they fulfill their role.

Human beings were created for some purpose.
They are commanded to do this and not to do that.
And maybe their role is, well, something in some kind of spiritual food chain, and maybe much less than that.

They really cannot understand the Creator’s will, and it may be that they never will.
Presumably, with the tools they have for imagining, they imagine that they are the most important thing in the world and that everything was created for them.

So what?
Bottom line, they fulfill their role.