There’s nothing wrong with subservience. People are subservient to Hashem. Avodim are subservient to their master. Rabbonim are subservient to Gedolim. The hamon hoam are subservient to Rabbonim. Yisroelim are subservient to Kohanim. And women are subservient to men.
There’s nothing different about the last mentioned subservience than with any of the previous ones. Whereas no one has problems with all the previous exemples of subservience, the only reason the latter example raises any hackles is due to the influence of the gentile world that unfortunately surrounds us and has influenced too many of us into sharing their corrupt values. And the latter example is something that the gentile world over the last hundred years has changed to promoting egalitarianism that was never a societal value, even by them, beforehand.