Agree with it all.
Once, in my local pub. I mentioned that I'd just got home after a freight trip. I was asked when I could expect "promotion" to flying passengers ? I explained that, subject to my bidding seniority, I actually chose to fly the freighters. Once one is away from home local clock time means nothing, one eats when one is hungry and sleeps when one is tired - hopefully - so the apparently unsocial hours of freighter schedules didn't matter, and as I was paid to fly the aeroplane, be it full of freight or self-loading freight made little difference to me, I flew the bit in front of the cockpit door, the rest just followed.
These were Professional Crew, and should be honoured as such.