Since you're in the weeds with traceroute you might appreciate this one (if you haven't seen it already):
traceroute bad.horse
traceroute bad.horse
https://itsfoss.com/star-wars-linux/
But when I tested just now it didn't work for me so your milage may vary.
tracepath -m128 bad.horse
works just as well.thanks for the smile to all in this thread from here up!