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The only hoop you have to jump through is using a Nitter instance. And the most dangerous abusers are most likely going to be determined enough to where doing this or creating a new account is not a deterrent.
False security is worse than no security. If people trust that the block function is reliable at stopping people from seeing your posts, and then those people post things publicly that they wouldn't share otherwise, that is leaving more people vulnerable than having no way to stop people from seeing your posts.
Most people don't know what Nitter is. Most people aren't "the most dangerous users," they're lazy, so any extra steps is a deterrent. Keeping the weak deterrent is still a net positive.
The types of posts i'm talking about here aren't things like "this is where i live" but innocuous things that transphobes or racists decide to take out of context. I would post all these things publicly but it's good to be able to make them more private from the freaks who are gonna freak out bc I said trans kids exist and put me in a cringe compilation to encourage others to harass me. Twitter never made it impossible to do that, but Elon's making it easier.