In retrospect, you can't really fault them too much for their limited critique. After all, many innovations were, if not labor-saving, at least fascinating. In the past, it was difficult to find people who would readily part with their homes for long periods to travel to distant places. Conquering armies from Europe were often made up of criminals and misfits and glory-headed gentry. All the merchant and Naval fleets of the colonial era used press gangs to kidnap men to serve on thier vessels.
Most people just wish to be left alone to find their place in their communities.
Go to the public or University library in your town sometime and watch the users of the on-line computers, those global communicators at their keyboards. No, in the end, the machine is only capable of ensnaring the user into its own reality. In many cases, more than the car owner will spend on any children in the family. So, in the 19th century, people had to take a great leap to challenge not only the notion of a strong, centralized state, but the industrialized society that gave birth to it. The proponents of classic Anarchism were not up to the task.