Yeahhh… I had someone friend request me after we did a couple quests together. I wanted to accept, but also that felt like a lot for some rando I ran with for 15 minutes. I’m sure they’re great and I would have loved to be friends, but not “see my entire account and message me offline” friends. Jeez.
Back in vanilla, I had some friend drama that I escaped by switching to an alt and leveling it to 60. I just needed to step away and get some space. After 60, I reconnected on the new char and we had some good times. If we had this system back then, I would have just quit. Nowadays, after a few bad experiences, I’m very careful of who I let have that kind of access to me.