I’m asking you how you think blocking, a feature of a majority of social media platforms (including reddit as pointed out already) is deceptive and harmful. Largely rhetorical because it’s an absurd assertion. Just because people use a tool in a “deceptive and harmful” manner (whatever that means) doesn’t mean the tool becomes inherently those things and again is a key feature for users to deal with harassment where muting is insufficient.

I did, but now why would I keep looking at other people's posts here at all? You think I want to keep finding people to block? How would that benefit me or be a use of my time?

Given how far you’re trying to take blocking out of context to frame as a bad thing; I don’t think your leaving is going to be a great detriment. Being able to block someone != “going around finding people to block”. If multitudes of people are blocking you that you have to reciprocate; might be worth having a think about why that is. Your right to express yourself or an opinion doesn’t equate everyone being compelled to listen to it. Nor is it censorship if someone, for whatever reason hard to imagine, decided they don’t ever want to hear from you again.