I agree with your point of view. It's just that we minimize entropy to the extent we understand the ecosystem. A fish may want to minimize entropy only in water, because that's what the fish knows as "the universe". For us, humans, it's the same: we try to function inside a very limited set of conditions, while the games are played way beyond those conditions too. From this perspective, "transcending the system" by swimming upstream is the only survival way.
Way easier said than done, I know.