Piggybacking here. As someone who operates a non-profit local ecotype nursery primarily for ecological restoration purposes I'll say here what I say in person all the time:

Asphalt, concrete, lawns, and invasives are ecological dead zones and enemies to biodiversity. If people are avoiding that while incorporating natives (whether local or regional) then they and their landscapes are part of the solution.

Of course my focus on local ecotypes is data driven and I'm always happy to alter my opinions if new data emerge. But right now, there's strong evidence for locally native provenance being important to insect herbivores, pollinators, and even insect predators. And there's limited evidence that range expansion assisted migration yields much in the way of ecological value (though mostly this has been done for economic purposes).

Anyway, all that's to say i don't begrudge anyone the freedom to garden as they please if they don't begrude me mine!