No need to look down on workhorses, and as squad players they are fine, but if you have to choose between workhorses and great talents, you pick the talented ones 10 out of 10 times. We are in the dynasty business. You cant build one on players like Fabinho, Henderson, Milner, Wijnaldum etc because you cant sustain dominance/greatness with workhorses. And I know its easy to shit on Barcelona right now, but we did a lot of stuff right in the past 20-30 years. Much more so than Liverpool.
Ideally you combine the two (de Jong, Griezmann), if the guy is exceptional like Messi or Ronaldo but doesn't work then you can afford to carry him. Any more than two of those players is not going to cut it in today's football. You need almost everyone on your team working to be able to press properly in today's high intensity football.
Look at what happened to Bale in Madrid, it wasn't worth carrying two guys that don't work hard, and Ronaldo was obviously better. So Zidane went for Vasquez ahead of him. He also removed James for Casemiro and it was a winning formula for them.