I get what you're saying, and Burial is definitely awesome, but I don't think dubstep is "macho basswankery", at all. Sure, stuff like Skream, Benga, Caspa, and all that wobble wubwubwubwubwub dubstep might be, but there are tons of more atmospheric dubstep artists... This, for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkIPKXCLPw (just naming this because it's stuck in my head at the moment, ahah). But to each their own obvioously, ahah. And Burial is indeed awesome. Though I personally prefer Untrue... It might be one of my favorite records ever, actually.