I totally agree. After writing this post I read even more relevant other forum topics and was pretty baffled that the arrived upon standard was that all remixes should be part of the original work unless they are almost entirely different from the original work. In my mind, we should be much more willing to separate works (and have descriptive relationships to link them). I was going to make another more complete forum topic addressing remixes specifically but I haven’t had the time…
Here are all of the relevant forum topics I found for convenience:
(this specific post by reosarevok is particularly… interesting, but the entire topic is relevant)