Read above. If you think that a banned player feels better than the one that he lost a part of his base, you better start reading more carefully to what happened in the past on siptah map. Lots of early access players lost great parts of their bases, some lost it almost all.
How many quit?
And again read above, you ask the same things years now but with different options, you ask a hard limit. So i ask you, if a hard limit comes, gow many players will lost again? Wouldn’t this create the same issues and many worst? What will decide what stays and what decays?
Now you have your answer, the poi will. And don’t forget, it’s not the main bases that create the performance issues, but the funcy outposts each player has to farm thralls or sorcery materials. So technically people will loose just outposts. But even if someone circle or blocked something again wins, it’s better to loose some than loose everything.
Ask the ones that got banned what they woukd prefer and you already have your answer.
Plus ask all the private server admins how many times they had to deal with blocking complains in their private servers. The problems are many and exceed just the official servers. The strict option in necessary!