That's my take too. The mute feature still leaves open the possibility of reading posts from a user that has muted you. The net effect from the muting/blocking

That's my take too. The mute feature still leaves open the possibility of reading posts from a user that has muted you. The net effect from the muting/blocking user's perspective is the same. Besides, there are a ton of X users who openly have "alt" accounts in order to get around exactly this.