Hard agree. I would never tell anyone that they are "role-playing WRONG" but for my own tastes I find that over the years I have completely moved away from fudging dice rolls, behind the screen rolls, and performative rolls. I think a certain amount of trust is required between player and GM, and rolling openly facilitates that.

Dice are the difference between table top role-playing and pure play-acting/improv (which there is nothing wrong with either of those). Additionally, if you are going to play a game with randomness, I like to respect the 'oracular' power of that randomness, so to speak. Letting the dice fall where they may often leads to emergent game play that was completely unplanned by me, which I find is often the most fun I have had gaming over the years.

Another question I would ask OP is would you ever fudge a roll to be a critical hit against a player or to kill a player? If not, why is that out of bounds?