I haven't thought this through thoroughly enough to have a definitive answer tbh.

I think it's the way the world _should_ work in my opinion, or the way I want it to work, but I'm also very conscious of the fact that we are little flatlanders operating in our realm of an existence that contains dimensions higher than us and which we can't begin to understand.

I see the inconsistency set in OP similar to how I view modern physics. Relativity and Quantum theories are helpful and descriptive in differing scales and instances, just like both premises above describe cross-sections of reality.

But they can't both be true together which is a recurring pattern in the history of science when in fact there is a new paradigm to be discovered eventually that eliminates the preceding incoherence and tension.

When this happens, in retrospect the previous theories and era that centered their worldview around them are often looked back on sympathetically and smugly like you would a developing child.

"Ah those silly humans back then, they actually believed x, y, z about the world." But for them at that point in time it was the best explanation they'd come up with. And almost assuredly it existed in incongruence with one of their other major premises too.

Until a new discovery comes along and a new paradigm emerges. Almost every era has gone through this same progression.