It's not like he went round doing quirky magic tricks or something.
His first miracle was turning water into wine at a party, which I consider a quirky trick. Then there's the whole cursing a fig tree that the texts openly admits wasn't in season to not bear fruit ever again and sending pigs down a cliff to drown themselves because demons. Not all his miracles were that great, the latter would probably get some animal rights activists on his heels.
Some illusionists have done walk on water, and there are charlatans that 'cure' things with spectacular messy visuals of 'pulling out cancer' and all that. We have the televangelists that 'spread the message' with some of these cures with dramatic testimonies. It's likely something that has always happened - there were dozens of Messianic cults at the time Jesus was alive and many since, before getting into how it's shown up in other cultures.
There are also places in the world today where women get certified virgins, even after having a child, to deal with BS. I think there is an element of that to a lot of old stories of part-god children...
I agree that this thought experiments should be applied to any religion that has demigod and prophets performing miracles rather than just Christians, but I find Christianity is the one most here know best so I'm not sure people would get if I used the "Messiah Schneerson" movements as an example (he died in 1994, some thing he didn't really and will somehow fulfill the criteria to Messiah, others think he was a potential Messiah, but having died never became that. In some variants of Judaism, there are potential Messiahs in every generation).