Correlation between working with demons and tangible misfortunes

Does this correlation actually exist? Let me start off by saying that I am asking this with no bias, apart from trying to help overcome my own hesitance and fear, and even that’s just a small part of it. I'm merely someone who has noticed a pattern among people who work with demons, but don’t have nearly enough experience to confirm the correlation one way or another. However, I've talked with people in my coven and they assure me that most of the time, such a correlation is either entirely coincidental or only there because the practitioner has asked for their patron(s) to influence their lives on such a level.

Without trying to sound like a certain Internet Tough Guy who posted in this sub a few weeks back, I've seen a lot of watering down of demons. That isn't a good thing or a bad thing; whatever works for you, I'm not one to judge. But the fact remains that when it comes down to it mythologically speaking, demons — and most other gods or spirits — are not nice or soft. That also is not meant to be a moral judgment, just a fact. Then there's all the horror stories that I hear. I read on some Internet forum a few years ago that someone ordered Liber Falxifer and apparently a whole bunch of tragedies befell their friends shortly after the book's arrival. Also all the stories about contracting illnesses (including cancer), and the psychosis and megalomania that I’ve seen befall many, from Thomas Karlsson to the average schizoposting Redditor in r/LeftHandPath.

My theory is that, for the most part, it really depends on the nature of one’s path. If one wants their path to be a path of thorns, fraught with nearly insurmountable, sanity-melting obstacles, then that is what one will get, which may be even more than they bargained for. Which, hey, if you come out the other side having faced some hideously ugly things and all the stronger for it and not a total piece of shit, all the more power to you. I respect that.

But that still leaves a lot of holes. The aforementioned buyer of Liber Falxifer asked people what the book is about (which really begs the question as to why the fuck they bought it in the first place, but okay) because of the recent tragedies surrounding them. Crowley (while not a demonolater and possibly a grifter; he also probably brought a lot of his circumstances down on himself being as arrogant and horrible as he was) suffered misfortunes before dying in poverty. And there’s also the people in this very sub who have experienced similar ills, although some of them have admitted that it was because their methodology was all wrong.

As an aside, my partner and I were in a crash outside an evangelical church a couple weeks ago. One of the witnesses (to the crash) from the church told us how easy it was to blame God for things like that happening, and I’m inclined to agree with him. Except it doesn’t just apply to God, it also applies to pretty much any other deity or spirit you might worship. For my part, I don’t blame God, nor do I think that any of my patrons had anything to do with the crash, or any of the previous ones.

So, in summary, my take is that no, the demons are usually not to blame for any tangible misfortunes that may befall the practitioner. It really is a matter of methodology and what one wants and expects. But I still can’t quite fill those holes. Are they really just unfortunate coincidences?