What some people in the 18th century intended it to be matters little in the 21st. Today it’s a massive legacy system that is almost impossible to reform without a rewrite.
It's not like the other ~half of the country is just going to go 'Wellp, I guess this is just the way it is now. I completely surrender.' No, the end result is invariably violence.
That is the reason the Senate is designed how it is. People will get a voice in the House, and states get a voice in the Senate. In fact it wasn't even until the 20th century with the 17 (IIRC) amendment that Senators were even openly elected - previously they were s(elected) by state legislatures.
The entire Constitution is written to create a system where people can loathe each other yet still manage to stay under the same flag. And it turned some backwater outposts into perhaps the greatest empire in history, all in a ridiculously brief period of time. So clearly there was more than a bit of wisdom in its construction.
Here's a trick: Go through this process: 'My emotions, which are not reality; are ...; my perceptions, which are not reality, are ...; if I bring my intellect to bear, I've learned ...'. At no point do we know reality - those things are all we've got, 'shadows on the wall'. The process forces us to sync up our frontal cortex and the emotional parts of our brains, which is essential and powerful, and to get some distance from our own perceptions.