people like the aesthetic of ghibli and don't like to think about the anger behind it. You see this when people do ghibli mash ups of things like zelda too.
For Nausicaä, Miyazaki very deliberately made the insects unmarketable, ugly, coarse, inhuman, and scary as opposed to something cute that sings and dances that you could get cute plushies and toys of (I'm sure that exists, but not to the extent of say, totoro). By the end of the movie, you realize the monsters are merely animals that serve the ecosystem, and they do more good for the world than the people who think they're doing good by eradicating them.
In the US there was a huge push to hunt wolves. Aside from their pelts which could be sold, they're also killing monsters. They'll eat you, and your children, and they're competition for those sweet innocent deer that you also want to hunt for leather and food. Hunt the monsters down.
Except getting rid of them had horrible consequences. The deer population exploded which resulted in starvation and mass migration of wildlife.
We started putting them back into the wild, and the deer population leveled. More deer started to die from wolves and far less animals died from starvation. Vegetation came back. The monsters, it turned out, were more akin to gardeners, tending to the field and keeping nature in balance.
The thing is wolves don't have morals. They don't lie, steal, cheat, or ponder the consequences of sin. They have feelings and empathy, but they don't bare ill will to their next meal. They don't twist the knife in their victim to make sure they feel it. They simply need to eat to live, and that involves killing, and so they kill, and because their lives depend on it, they kill as efficiently as possible, and the deaths, while violent, are quick as opposed to starvation. They don't have the convenience of going to mcdonalds to remain blissfully unaware about the murder they're consuming. They kill because they have to kill when they have to kill.
And that's more or less what Nausicaä is about. It's not about a princess saving the world and watering her plants and studying while lofi music plays. It's anger directed at man's indifference and unwillingness to understand nature, and I cannot stand the anger being wallpapered over for aesthetic.
You don't really love a field of flowers if you think the insects that inhabit them need to exterminated, and you don't really love a forest if you're not livid that people only see value in them once they're chopped down.
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