There’s no problem at all with your opinion that you don’t need it but you’ve expanded that into the view that therefore no one else should want it either.
You’re saying that because you’ve no problem with the current implementation of the board, why on Earth should anyone else have a different opinion? Again, if a software mod made no difference at all to your pleasure but helped others, why would you object?
An ‘ignore thread' button would have zero impact on you but would help other people. So why would you object? Why impose your preferences on others when your enjoyment remains unaffected?
But you also zap all that poster's other contributions which may be mostly ok. It can’t be that complicated to hide a thread without hiding everything a particular member says on any topic.
The Just Albion filter isn’t the answer, and doesn’t address the suggestion of the OP. There are plenty of non-football topics that different people want to read but the ability to hide a thread gives us the ability to create our own filters. And please, no more of these 'do you prefer Twix or...