You can still block people, the change just makes it so that the blocked party can still see the blocking party's posts. If your account is public, it has alway

You can still block people, the change just makes it so that the blocked party can still see the blocking party's posts. If your account is public, it has always been possible to look at the posts by using an alt or incognito. And AFAIK this update is already how other social media platforms like Tumblr function.