Criticism isn’t disrespect and ingratitude, except to the narcissist by the yes-man. Quite the opposite is the case, just as you tell your friend what you think of their new song or outfit, both bad and good. You don’t look at millions of years of evolution and say it’s perfect and could not possibly be improved in the slightest - that would be to spit in its face.
What reason do you have not to doubt the validity of default sober perception, in the face of optical illusions, misunderstandings, limited faculties etc.? Our awareness is sufficient, that is all - and only for a limited time at that. When inspiration hits from nowhere, maybe even during a dream when the brain is on standby, or in the delirium of fever, which turns out to be valuable insight even once rational, awake and healthy again - is the value invalidated by virtue of one’s condition at the time it occurred? Were you not supposed to have it because you were not at the height of your default sober perception?
Every illusion, dream, hallcination, misunderstanding is really happening to you when it does, even if it’s not matching the default sober perception of reality. The ingredients themselves are always taken from reality, just reassembled in a new way that is necessary for both misunderstanding the world and re-imagining a better misunderstanding of it. Creativity doesn’t happen from sticking to the default sober perception of reality - sticking to the know and accepted is exactly how you don’t create. You need to pick it apart and stick it back together in a new way to innovate - even the picking apart itself, only to reassemble exactly how it was before is enough to humble someone who took everything for granted and accepted the normal failures and struggles of life without question. Only after this can someone appreciate how much of a slave they used to be - hence all the talk of freeing your mind after deconstructing your assumptions through whatever means. Critical thinking, meditation, somehow such healthy things can achieve the same or similar result as a drug trip - does the means really matter when one returns to normal afterwards either way? Was the monk not “supposed” to reach enlightenment? Was the mathematician spitting in the face of millions of years of evolution when they found a common assumption to be flawed? They’re all engaging reality - that’s the thing about reality, you can’t escape it. It’s not like the drug user disappears from reality, they experience the same reality as you do, but in a different way - (same ingredients, different cake) and ironically in doing so they expand their reality in ways that will never have even occurred to you because you were too rigid in your grip over what you want reality to be. You know it’s all in your head, right? Sober or not, sensation and interpretation is your mind, it doesn’t happen “out there”. Your reality is in your mind, you just evolved to be able to agree with others about what reality is in a useful way that would appear to be representative of something “out there” through its relative practical success, but which you can never directly confirm. Simple, healthy logic can get you to that basic philosophical consideration - you seem to be putting far too much stock into “that one way that everything is, sober people agree, end of conversation”. Philosophy 101 will highlight all kinds of things you can’t know that shake up the possibilities of what reality could be - I assume you are aware, being a member of this forum? Why is it wrong if you shake up reality in the exact same way through psychedelics?