It's fine to acknowledge that politics and "playing the game" is inescapably important in modern industry. It is not fine to be comfortable with that, and it's very much to your credit that you're not. Don't try to suppress that feeling.

I believe it is both naive to ignore politics, and immoral to fullheartedly embrace them. You need to be wise enough to play the game, and self-aware enough to step outside of it when possible.

There's a moral aspect there -- the idea that power and organization shouldn't be tied to those kinds of petty, exclusionary games. But there's also a very practical aspect, because if you ever find yourself acting as a manager and making critical decisions, being able to look behind the game will allow you to make better, more pragmatic choices and to surround yourself with people who are actually productive and actually increase team cohesion -- not just who are popular or good at making flashy contributions.