Trump won the 2016 election on a technicality.

[Tommy Carcetti]

17. We purport ourselves to be a democracy (at least a representative democracy.)

So yes, a constitutional mechanism that divides the entire citizen's votes up by a byzantine method which unduly empowers citizens of smaller states and essentially disenfranchises citizens of larger ones is a technicality.

Put it this way: If the electoral college were not in the constitution, it would have been deemed unconstitional under the equal protection clause. The courts have actually struck down similar mechanisms under state elections under the notion of one person, one vote.