I think that you would not think so, Bill, were your early acquaintances with the concept of "God" not associated primarily with the very anthropomorphic deities popularized by the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition.

Those dieties are almost astonishingly narrow and primitive-sounding when you compare them to the concepts of the Divine offered in Vedanta. Or in Buddhism. Or in Taoism...which doesn't even posit any form of deity, but does posit a divine "Way" of harmonious and coherent existence which everything is attuned to...although human beings' minds tend to get in the way of keeping that attunement most effectively.

You only say it's vague and useless because you are largely unfamiliar with it, in my opinion.