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I don't know, the stereotypical Hollywood cigar-chomping sexual harassing fatcat movie executives seemed to like money more than the people running the place today. One of my favorite TV series, Star Trek TNG, was only good because Paramount forced Rick Berman to keep Gene Roddenberry tucked away in a corner where he couldn't do much damage, because he had a "message" he wanted to push, while they just wanted to sell a product.
Rick Berman gets a lot of flack, but he really was one of the major forces behind Star Trek's renaissance in the 80s and 90s. He stopped Gene Roddenberry's nuttier ideas, while sticking to the underlying principles that made Star Trek so unique and popular.
I don't know if you can say studio interference is a good or bad thing.
For every story of "studio ruins movie" there's a counter argument where the changes were objectively better. The first one just makes a better story.
You'd really need to count the number and scale of studio intrusions on movies to know.