you effectively messed up and perplexed a few separate yet related concepts, such as asymptotic bounds, empirical running time, Kolmogorov complexity, and even the fundamental computational model used in analyzing complexity. and apparently you forgot the concern in space if you really had to pull this thread this way. in cs pedagory, these concepts and their interrelations are always spelled out again and again, and the instructors would never get tired of doing so. there is no such a concept called "complexity dilemma", but misuse and misunderstanding of complexity analysis.