I can’t speak personally to being upset that you can’t react to some people. You can react in other apps, that person likely just won’t see it.

I kind of see the new Damus approach as being like “comments are disabled for this video” on YouTube - but for reactions. I get an author may not want to deal with controversial comments below their content. Or even the time to read them - however other people will.

I guess being able to react, vs having it removed from other peoples app, experience is the key frustration.

Should any content be free from being able to respond to in an open web? Should a Nostrpedia page about abortion be able to be locked or reject replies/comments/whatever?

It’s complex, hard, and probably always a gray area.