Overly earnest take: if we lived in utopia where there were never any matching issues or defaults or any pinch hits whatsoever, I would be fine with socks and probably have some myself. I very often write more than one fic, so it would be nice to be guaranteed two or three gifts in return.
But we don't live in that particular utopia, and in practice, some PHers (whether signed up or not) are going to have to write fics without being guaranteed them in return for the exchange to function. So I'm not really cool with "writer A wrote N fics and is only guaranteed 1, writer B wrote N fics and is guaranteed N." I understand that some/most of the treats I write aren't the same as PHs because they're for people who already have an assigned writer, but from a Kantian "what if everyone did this" perspective I don't think socking is fair.
Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
But we don't live in that particular utopia, and in practice, some PHers (whether signed up or not) are going to have to write fics without being guaranteed them in return for the exchange to function. So I'm not really cool with "writer A wrote N fics and is only guaranteed 1, writer B wrote N fics and is guaranteed N." I understand that some/most of the treats I write aren't the same as PHs because they're for people who already have an assigned writer, but from a Kantian "what if everyone did this" perspective I don't think socking is fair.