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The saved person is one who has (effectively) decided that God's way for them is the way they want to go, that it's the destination they want to arrive at. Once that overarching decision has been made there is no need to revisit it or "grow up and leave home" from it.
If they truly understand God, then once that decision has been made they are quite capable of crossing the road without supervision. They have matured.
Why do you feel that God wants perpetual children? Why do you think he got so upset with the Israelites? Why do you think he planned to write it on their hearts? I'm sure it's rather annoying to keep telling humans to behave day after day, decade after decade, century after century, millennium after millennium.
Even humans know it isn't healthy to keep our children from maturing. That's how the planet works. Why would God want anything different?
I think religion has the need to keep people as children, not God.
"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz