How do you feel about riding in a Palaki / Palanquin?

In my childhood I had read somewhere that Swami Vivekananda was against riding rickshaws or push-carts pulled by humans ...back in the old days of Calcutta. I heard the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi too.

Their logic was why should a human pull another human? They didn't consider it ethical to ride a human pulled vehicle.

I often wondered about it whether it's ethical or not. The human pulling the vehicle is earning his livelihood through that job. But may be, it amounts to some sort of slavery. The human who is riding obviously becomes superior to the one who is pulling him.

But isn't it far better that a human is pulling the vehicle than an animal pulling it?

Human-powered vehicles are normally understood as vehicles powered by self and not by the muscle power of other human beings.

Anyway, to this day, I could never comprehend the fundamental reasoning of Vivekananda & Gandhi for not using these human-pulled carts.

But if these were the reactions of Vivekananda and Gandhi for riding a human puled cart, what's your thought on riding a Palaki (palanquin)?

Last week, I was at Guru Shikhar, the highest peak of Aravali Range of mountains at an elevation of 5,650 feet. No trek is needed to reach to that height. There all well developed roads for vehicles to reach near that peak. There is a small temple viz. Dattatreya temple on this peak for which one needs to climb some stairs.

There I clicked some pictures of a palaki:

It reminded me of the resolution of Swami Vivekananda to not to sit on human-pulled carts of Calcutta. And I wondered what would be his thoughts about this system of travel!

What do you think about such a mode of transport? Is it ethical?
Even if a person is sick or not capable of climbing stairs on his/her own feet, is it really necessary to use such palaki system to go there?

I'd like to learn your stand on it and how do you interpret, understand or analyze the stance of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi?