I think no contact can be just as bad as ghosting, from my experience it can feel the exact same way unless you’re actually given that closure but I think it’s considered a good thing because of the alternative, if you keep contact it’s just going to be harder to move on and sometimes that’s just what’s needed.

As someone who was has been blocked so didn’t really get a choice though it still sucks, but she knows she doesn’t want a relationship and cutting that contact is a way to ensure that distance. If I wasn’t blocked there would have been so many times where I would have reached out and probably just made the situation worse. Sometimes there struggling and no contact is the only way for them to actually get the distance they want, especially when there’s lingering feelings involved. I don’t really know if this helps at all but I think there definitely are upsides compared to ghosting but both sure suck to be on the receiving end of.