With an attitude like that you will get your lunch eaten so fast, by people who are suffering losses of various sorts in order to get to make their creation their way, the way it's supposed to be made.

That's universal. I don't care whether it's zombie movies or pop music or any sort of thing you think hollow and worthless.

I don't know what industry you're in (tech?) but in the glamour professions where people compete savagely to get to where they're not losing money at the game, those 'hired hands' may be scornful of the director, but it's because they've got their own script that's not being picked up, and their suggestions aren't being followed. And the actor refuses to see the final film because he will lose his mind watching every little fumble of a line, imagining how he should have done it. Surviving this is the inner game of these creative industries.

The times when a crew wears 'I'm just crew and don't care about anything' are sarcasm, protest against a fanatical director who is making them depart from their usual workmanlike habits that they think are how you make a great film that is perfectly fine. They're not advocating for bad so much as they're insisting that they're already the apex of good, that the director is insane and unreasonable. (which can be part of the job description, for advancing the state of the art…)

Nobody who is content to be a hired hand stays in such an industry. You can make more pumping gas, half the time.