I think it's totally reasonable, from the Debian mindset. Debian is an open-source zero-binary-blob distribution. You have to deliberately choose to install bin

I think it's totally reasonable, from the Debian mindset. Debian is an open-source zero-binary-blob distribution. You have to deliberately choose to install binary blobs, such as driver firmware etc. It is the dismissive response which is not appropriate. The responder asserts that the blob is safe and trustworthy, how would anybody know?.