https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/How-to-whitelist-a-we...
People seems allergic to browser extensions this days. I also get the "why is this an extension and not a filter?" on a non ad-related extension.
Extensions are also vectors for adware and malware so it's better to trust established extensions, and questioning an extension whose behvior could be trivially accomplished without is a reasonable concern to raise.
That's why I'm skeptical of new browser extensions for things that the ones I have can already cover.
Doesn't mean everybody else has to feel like that (e.g. I honestly hadn't considered someone might want to install this but not a generic configurable blocker - even if you aren't aggressively blocking ads uBlock would be useful for me)
Using a different addon for exactly the same purpose but for different content is the worst kind of separation of concerns.
Ad blockers have their own issues, including trust about maintainers intentions.