You have a legal obligation to refuse to do something unethical, so it depends whose definition of “good” you’re looking at, the HR dep, or the engineering one.

Not doing what you’re told because you think you know better still sounds better than blindly doing what you’re told. Employees following instructions they don’t understand, when talking about desk jobs, kills any motivation. Let them offer alternatives, and argue a bit. There’s a difference between disagreeing and misunderstanding, and I bet the anti authoritarian crowd is more bothered by the latter than the former