While some of the karmic religions, especially Buddhism and Jainism, are of the opinion that this world is essentially corrupt and that it is both desirable and possible to detach from it, the core Daoist teachings are focused not upon escaping a cycle of rebirth and redeath but upon how to best act within this life, regardless of whether you think it is a one shot, or part of a cycle. I'll grant that Buddhism has had a significant impact upon East Asian thought, but it isn't integral to an understanding of the Dao. I am decidedly not a Buddhist, nor would I want to be, but I find the philosophy of the Dao quite compatible, in both its Taoist and Confucianist modes, with a wide variety of cosmological beliefs, not just resurrection.
My issue is with the connotations of words like “corrupt” - while we might see them as nihilistic, Buddhists themselves would maintain that nothing is more conductive to mental and physical wellbeing than the life of moderation which their metaphysics promotes. It’s hard to say if the same was true with Christian Gnostics.