To each his own. You yourself already drew a boundary box between what you hate and what you like, thereby shutting yourself out from all the great Chinese films like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, etc. I wonder how do you improve like that. There are other modern Chinese films that are just as good as the 80s and 90s.
Chen kaige best movie is farewell with concubine and the best part is the portion on cultural revolution. Many of the good movies survived by self censoring which could be even better movies. Some barely survive the ban in China, some self censored until it is tolerable in China and some dun survive the ban. It is in golden horse and other international awards that they are given a chance to shine again so actually the loss is on China (not ccp) side.
Zhang yimou golden time is up to the mid 90s. His movie hero is an utter rubbish propaganda movie. He later go for more commercial movies like 黄晶甲 and the Great Wall which are ok but not award winning categories. His time is long gone as an art movie director
As for golden horse they can’t do anything. The boycott is by ccp due to broken hearts. The words are said by a guest and those words are not wrong either. Golden horse can neither stop the guest from saying nor disagree with the guest. So can only say boh bian.
It sure isn’t as bad as an award is being given to the movie 战狼 which is now a modern day mockery term for ah Q type of ultranationalism and spiritual warmongering - that is the real pathetic trend compared to just being a smaller award.
It just means lagi best for the others cos the other movies gets to shine. That’s all.