Reasonable, I think. It seems there's a faction of users going all or nothing across the instances, holding pitchforks and clutching their pearls, screaming, "Defederate or doom is upon us!"
Man, I can block something if I don't want to see it. Or the alternative they chose, personal ban. It's not the end of times. I want to believe instances are trying to reach a middle ground here to preserve the spirit of federation.