Nice article. I run dino and synthetic my reasons are as follows. My new cars get a dino break in, because I do a few short OCI's then I switch to synthetic oil. The reason for the synthetic oil is the new car usually sits and is used once or twice a week, and spends most of the winter in the garage. I feel the synthetic oils are more likely to cling to metal better, and offer better cold start flow. Once the car is demoted to a daily driver, I usually change over to dino oil, or if I buy a used car, and it was run on dino I'll continue with dino.
I agree with tig1 that in a few years synthetic oil will be more popular and more engines will require it.