Forcing whales to not use their investment is an unrealistic and in some sense unfair limitation on the entire process - not to mention something that hugely limits the attractiveness of Steem as an investment to those who could boost its value the most.
I don't really see that allowing users the free will choice of removing problems as they see fit is ignoring the problems. In fact, I see this as allowing the community to do things in their own way. The solution on offer is just a method of applying personal choice to your own browser without affecting much else, yet it does solve the problem for each individual - I'm not sure there is a better way of 'having your cake and eating it too'.