Hangar,
Clearly your experience and mine are very different as I do not see that view from my end of the telescope. My experience is that there is an increasing narrowing of the background between upper and lower deck and an increasing willingness to mix it when ashore.
I simply do not recognise your statement re "unless there is something in it for him...".
There will always be the odd cold fish, but this happens at all levels not just at the top of the shop.