Wow. I believe I, for one, am in a decent position to comment on this essay as I'm usually Dissatisfied with reality. I often wish for something exciting to happen or something interesting which only I know of but as expected I often get disappointed with the results. I want to be the protagonist of everyone's story(I admit it to be a quite cruel and apathetic wish) and quite unexpectedly I'm an amateur writer as well. Uptil a while ago, I was in a frenzy of seeking for the solutions to my eternal disillusionment problems due to my worsening situation of impatience and restlessness. Although I've got my answer, still it hurts quite a bit that fantasy can never co-exist with reality. Fortunately, I'm still young enough to reboot "my" sense of reality. I owe you, Eliezer Yudkowsky, sir. Thank you.
I agree with your basis of reasoning to a significant extent. You're right in saying that certain aspects of limitless fantasy are way cooler than the limited reality which often need specified conditions. The convenience of portable wand or say a whistle to call out for your pet dragon is always a better and preferable choice than having to go to a designated place, fulfil all the hectic conditions and then finally getting to hand glide for a moment provided we have proper supervisors all the time. This is not really the freedom to navigate through the uncharted places like it is on the dorsum of one's own dragon friend.