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What if some enhancement gets applied to (virtually) everybody and side effects are learned only when it's too late? Naturally there's a big, uncontrolled variety of possible changes and natural selection comes into play. Meanwhile gene editing is prone to become a monoculture.

Technology does not answer to questions about ethics. Technology dispenses with any value propositions.

Capitalism doesn't either. Capitalism answers to profits and not necessarily to _everybody_'s profits.

Technology doesn't have wide variance too. Thus it hinders natural selection.

How do you know your premise is true?

If gene A is applied artificially, it always gets applied. Or should we add rand() to ensure some sort of natural selection-like variance?

I have yet to see someone with a proven record of reading into the future.