There is also the possibility of a maltheistic view, that beings such as Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones exist—horribly alien and usually extremely powerful but also entrapped or imprisoned in some way at least until the stars come right again—along with Outer Gods which are more like incomprehensible concepts and workings of the “divinity”— along with Elder Gods which are either the little gods of earth’s mythology and folklore, or more benign gods.
Or the God believed in by most monotheistic believers such as Christians and Jews, who can be capricious but overall benevolent.
In Sci-Fi the Matrix can exist, but I think that God and gods are far more incomprehensible and mystic and reflected in too many things like numbers, systems, geometry, nature, even the nature of holiness and love, to be a mere alien race. And the universe itself is far more complex and mystic to be a computer simulation created by aliens.
Worship is a natural human response to the majesty and glory of a God that is greater than human comprehension. Not something we ‘decide’ whether or not God is worthy of worship, or should be, or whatever.