One good example are the people who lived during the American Revolution, people who would've revolted decades ago if they lived today based on some of the things going on in society. And there are many examples I can give of people accepting things they shouldn't, but it would stray too far into topics that typically lead to a ban so I'll just avoid it. You can disagree with me if you'd like, my opinion will remain the same, people today are far more prone (as if they've been trained to be) to just accepting what's dealt to them. Society in general, or an NHL game, it's the same mindset and not as "apples and oranges" as you think it is.
And I don't want the fans to do anything about the bad officiating and never said they should. Although now that you mention the fans it wouldn't hurt if a significant percentage of them said I'll start going to games again when you get the officiating sorted out. But we all know that isn't going to happen, it's kind of like when people learned their emails, text messages, and phone calls were being spied on yet still walk around addicted to their cell phones every second of every day. Accepting that level of invasion of privacy is, again, a good example of how modern day society is far more lax when it comes to standards than prior generations were.
But back to hockey, the teams need to do something. Just for a moment imagine if our team issued a statement saying we're boycotting game 5 and won't be playing. MacKinnon was closer to the fans on the other side of the ice than he was to his own bench yet his replacement skated in for a game winning goal, which basically sunk our season, so we're protesting the rest of the series. The attention that kind of stand would draw might actually accomplish something. It would shine a million spotlights on a glaring issue this league has had forever. Every single year people continue to say "we just have to play through it", at what point do people (teams and players) finally recognize maybe it's time for the league to actually do something about it, instead of continuing to punish teams in the most important games of the season? I don't want the Lightning to win because of a bad call, or lose because of one. But that's where we're at in our ultra compliant society where people just accept everything because they'd rather not rock the boat.