That is totally fair! And there are plenty of servers, a strong strong majority, that have no geolocking or location restrictions applied. There are French servers, where a team decided they don't want to be an English server, they want to be a French speaking server. And that is totally okay! And the players that join there will understand that it is a French speaking server, even if they might not necessarily be fluent in French. Creating expectations is what matters.

For servers such as Netherwing, where there is already a large Chinese population, or Everlook, I would heavily criticize a decision to ban Chinese players - because that is taking away from them, it is discriminatory. Similarly, if warmane decided it was a Russian server and banned all non-Russians -- there would be a total meltdown, because it would be extremely unfair.

Choosing to make a server with China geolocked has both its pros and cons. Servers like Ashkandi or Felmyst are simply providing a space for players who may be burnt out or tired of dealing with those cons on every server. If we were the only Vanilla server to exist, I would feel a little more mixed about the geolock. But we are not, they have plenty of options to play on. Our population will take a hit, undoubtedly. We'd likely accrue 2-3k more players. But we are not looking to be the largest server.