The only pitch he was throwing for strikes was his slider, so makes since Altuve was sitting on it...not to mention, it was poorly located. That was a bad pitch by any measure.
The Astros will eventually be less the villain as it’s discovered most teams (at least those trying to win) were doing similar things...but in the meantime, I get it, just no reason to point it at Altuve for some unproven (disproven? MLB already said no evidence for it) conspiracy theory.