I agree Bruce. Drum scanners have no issue with negs made for wet printing, even very dense ones. Personally, I hate the idea of making negs that are so flat they suit only scanning (presumably on scanners with low Dmax). At least with darkroom optimised negs you will retain both options long into the future and I strongly suspect darkroom printing will be around every bit as long as scanners capable of dealing with transparent materials.

The last prints I made from drum scans were from 6x7 negs and printed to 40". There was grain, but as you say, it was slightly digitised grain if you like. Not as organic as real grain, but a lot closer to that than to pixels or other digital artifacts. The look was very pleasing and only if you sniffed the print could you see that it was not the grain you would expect from a wet print, but a little different.