Pretty much this. Sometimes the plot has to happen. My family was watching the Thing for the first time last night. There were points where they pointed out things the crew should have done differently to try and better protect themselves from the Thing that made sense. Don’t leave anyone along, always travel in groups of three or more, etc.
At the end of the day they still enjoyed the movie and understood those parts happened because there had to be an actual movie, not ten minutes of screen time till they did the blood tests and handled Norris, Blair, and Palmer.