I think your question is important, and I wish you had received a reply. I think it's common for people's needs to be in conflict; everything is a trade-off, as you acknowledged.

But I think you baked into your question a false dichotomy. "Dynamicland" does not necessarily have to _undo_ the "equalizing effect of computers", nor does its absence mean that the majority is confined to an _inhumane_ (wow...) way of working.