You're quick to throw the word ignorant around
I call it as I see it. If you can't recognize that this is an issue that affects DoLs far more than anyone else, that's ignorance. Simple as that.

That does not necessarily mean that I think only DoLs deserve to have an adjustment made, but it does mean that I think they're the only ones that need it. If I'm on a DoW/DoM and someone drags something on me and gets me AoEd, I can either ignore it because it likely wasn't severely interrupting anything I was doing anyway, or I can easily fight off the mob. If I'm on a DoH, I can just go craft in town. If I'm on a DoL, I get to do nothing except suck wind and whine to a GM, and even then it's not like the GM is going to give me my items or my unspoiled node back.

I'm curious as to what makes you think what we have now is a "balance" that needs to be preserved, rather than a blaring obvious problem that needs addressing.

(sorry to burst your bubble but I love gathering, probably more than you do.)
Not only is that completely irrelevant, I also completely don't care. My bubble's just fine.

but it's not ignorance other than not realizing if they do this change, they have to do the change universally or balance is skewed.
The "balance" is already skewed as it currently is, and I already explained why more than once.