I fully support people freely choosing to change their profile pics as often as they like.

I fully support relay operators freely choosing to honor or ignore updates to profile pics at their own discretion.

What I’m asking for is the same freedom to choose at the client (recipient) level.

Clients already have tooling to allow users to conditionally ignore some kinds of incoming information: mute conversation, mute user, mute keyword, etc. All I’m asking for is to conditionally ignore another kind of broadcast, the profile pic update.