Why not?

Freedom = more options

You should also have the option to filter posts that use the feature. And you are not “forced” to do as the post says, but you can if you want. 

 it proposes some interesting game theory.

for instance, @odell may want to monitize his nostr following, but doing so at too low a rate will spame his followers, perhaps losing a few

also,  functionality to only pay for reposts from npubs with a threshold level of followers. no point in paying bots without followers