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Okay, but the moral of the story was that "superior" people weren't actually superior. They were just racist.
The protagonist outwits and outperforms them all.
Seems like a pretty bad execution of the concept, then.
That's the joke tbh.
In some cases there were absolute superior though. Like the pianist with 12 fingers.
The actual moral of the story was that it's not worth it. Being a bit better at some random shit like swimming, playing piano or piloting a rocket is not good enough to sacrifice the rest.
Having twelve fingers isn't what makes you good at playing the piano.
There's an underlying question in the story that amounts to "if you've made Earth such a great place, why is everyone trying to leave?"
The plan to colonize Titan is, at its root, a eugenics fantasy.
The movie literally says that the piece cannot be played without 12 fingers.
the movie doesn't say anything about "colonizing titan", in fact the mission doesn't even state what's the purpose other than to get to titan which has never been done before - it symbolizes ultimate frontier that in the eyes of eugenicists would require a perfect human to be achieved and yet the guy that ends up outcompeting everyone is a not genetically modified and achieves this through sheer skill and determination.
You're misinterpreting the ending. Vincent always felt rejected by the world for being a natural but ends up feeling bittersweet for leaving as he found Irene and Jerome who proved to him that earth is very much capable of loving him. Not "everyone is trying to leave earth", just Vincent really and even then he heavily diminishes his desire.
I love Gattaca and really don't understand your beef with it. It's a beautiful story but awfully insightful too that aged perfectly even to this day! In fact, I'll watch it again tonight :)