I've hated that people accept it because it's the "nonextreme" path.

Depending on the motivation it's also the pussy path, too many people are too scared to make a decision based on their own judgement and commit to the full consequences of that, so they make a psuedo-decision that doesn't actually commit them to anything and lets them join the side with the least consequences at a later date.

And I say this as someone who likes to fully understand the reality of the situation and thinks everyone is capable of being a cunt, so I do often see issues with "both sides", but just as often the relative issues are so disparate in size realistically only one side is an actual problem. Most people who fencesit on the "both sides" line are either rats biding their time or can't count high enough to understand the difference between 5 wrongdoings and 5000 wrongdoings and think both are comparable. The principled shades of grey complaints are in the minority these days.