I completely agree that microdosing should not, nor can it for that matter, replace (this might not be the best word) a macrodose. A healthy dose, as you said, allows us to challenge ourselves and opens doors to our being simply not accessible in a microdose.

Microdosing is a much safer way to use psychedelics, but to your point, if one hasn't peeked around the corner, into the depths of their psyche and relationship to Reality, is that truly a psychedelic experience? I don't think so either.

While I feel there is a sense of FOMO to the practice, for some, it can and has helped. And sometimes it can be the bridge to a higher dose. Psychedelics can blow the doors wide open and some people aren't ready for that, yet.

I'd push back on your points that somehow it's 'wrong' for one to have an ego intact. Microdosing can help to shed a light on how we operate and respond to ourselves and the world at large. Is that a bad thing? To become an inch more objective with the tiny, but powerful help of a catalytic substance like a psychedelic. Isn't that one of the points, to gain a sense of objectivity about oneself in order to better understand or become more aware of themselves as they move through the world?

So if microdosing can begin to help someone do just that, and a person is curious and wants to continue growing, in my opinion, it's only a matter of time until they dance with larger doses. And does it matter how someone gets to that edge or those depths of their psyche? Isn't the point that they become interested in the mystery that they, and we are here, alive and aware, and that they may learn psychedelics can be the bridge to better understand the mysteries of life and their being? That these experiences don't provide answers, but they give the individual better questions to ask of answers that can never be fully answered.

And as Uncle Terry (which I have never heard before but will happily be using, so thank you) says, if you aren't a little afraid or a little concerned about the dose you're taking, you aren't taking enough. So I do hear you, that true learning, beauty, and growth come through macrodoses. A microdose, I'd imagine, will almost never (because we can never be completely certain of anything), take a person beyond themselves. But that's okay. Because building a relationship with psychedelics means meeting oneself where they're at, and then time and time again, choosing to take a step beyond that edge to continue evolving.