Sometimes people don't know any better and have been brainwashed. Sometimes they aren't murderous imperial trash.
But, goons make the agenda go 'round, and goons are the worst.
It's complicated. I see both perspectives here. And it really is a case of we are all victims of our own evil culture. I used to defend the soldier whilst condemn the capitalist imperialism. But, as I grow wiser, that doesn't quite resolve the reality of it all. We need to fix public education. And, getting rid of DEI is an actual disaster.
Because it's an afterthought. Imagine going to see a painting, but then the venue owner coming up and being like "my favorite color is blue, so all the red is going to get repainted over as blue.
The production wanted and worked and casted and directed and mixed and timed and animated all of the audio and people and visual together., and some asshole comes along and is just like "fuck all of this, people don't want that, replace it with my buddies on staff that are cheap. We've been doing it for years, the dummies won't notice".
And to address the subject of why subtitling is different from that, it's not entirely so. Subtitling is just less destructive.