I always thought Esperanto was more of a sci-fi type thing. That said, I wouldn’t say I’m a proponent of DVORAK, I think its a better method, and has more advantages, but I wouldn’t say lets fight for it or anything, at most, I’d say stop teaching cursive, and let kids learn to type, and use that as the first format they learn. That would be pretty much the end of my feeling about it.
Oddly enough, there are actually people who learn Esperanto, and congregate with each other, and speak it amongst themselvs, and think themselves therefore something special. My grad-school thermodynamics professor was one such. He also bought a Volkswagen "Quantum" (car) simply because of the name.
Of course, there are also folks who learn Klingon, and ...