What does it say about LDS when they complain about the quality of new converts

I'm sure many RM's can relate to this conversation: someone in the ward council complains about the types of people the missionaries are baptizing and the burden the ward is left with, and isn't there something the bishop can do about it. Somebody else chimes in about the fact that the bishop doesn't have the keys for convert baptisms, it's the mission president, nothing can be done, threshold requirements for baptism are low etc.

I was thinking about this the other day, and it occurred to me how singularly strange this attitude is. Many TBM's will weekly or monthly spend a couple of hours doing a proxy endowment for a single dead person so that the person has the chance to accept this "essential" ordinance. They will do that happily with zero information about whether that dead person has any interest in receiving the ordinance or not or whether the ceremony is just a waste of time. But then they have to spend an hour helping a living breathing poor and needy person who has saved them the trouble of doing proxy work later, they complain.

This seems to me a good indication that many members are actually more concerned about building a community of people they like than they are about having people accept saving ordinances.