So basically you are saying that even if the domain is something between uninteresting and downright "bad", the fact that it has a lot of technically interesting aspects? I guess I can understand that. That's most likely the reality for a lot of us. Not that the domain we work in is inherently questionable, but that it's just mundane (insurance, manufacturing, whatever)

I feel the same way about most defense tech, for example. For example, I'd have nothing against working on missile guidance systems that actually kill people, but I'd never take a job in adtech. So what we count as questionable is just individual.