I agree completely. It's not desired at all. Which you would think people would recognize how pernicious that is to advancement. Modern society itself was built on top of people who had the freedom to question everything and not accept the status quo.
Everything that we enjoy is the product of someone who wasn't satisfied with how things were. If we take that away, we're only setting ourselves up for a world of stagnation; a never ending present where people simply exist with no motivation to strive for a better future.
I'm convinced that one reason we see so many people adamant about the way they're recognized in the physical world is because the demand for conformity has stifled diversity of thought, which has driven people to embrace diversity of the material self. I can't help but think that living in such a way is shallow and empty.
But it almost seems like an inevitability when you live in a society that glorifies some of the worst aspects of our species while simultaneously profligately denigrating the better qualities.