The cursing of the fig tree has echos in other Jewish literature best example is Moses hitting a rock to get it to send out water.

The temple had to do business. It wasn’t practical for everyone to bring their own animals and the coinage issue wasn’t considered a big deal. If there has been a historical Jesus (again there wasn’t) he most likely started the assault on the temple because he was trying to fulfill the OT prophecy of its destruction. Kinda like when you want sex so you give your partner a back rub.

You got to understand all the accounts of man were written multiple decades later by liars.