While I feel that Serge (the OP) is being too harsh on the RMS' announcement, which obviously was born in attempt to reconcile the differences between the people who insist on introducing "a proper CoC" and the people who feel that "it is the heavy-handed way of teaching people to behave differently", your comment is going too far in the different direction.

Emotional labor is a thing. As someone who both prefers direct communication and (thinks that he) can relate to what other people feel, I'm always facing a choice between spending some emotional effort to be "nicer" or having my counterparty deal with it. I tend to choose the former and it does feel like labor.

Absence of barriers is also not the same as making one feel welcome. But I feel the KCG are actually a step in the right direction in this regard; and since it doesn't alienate as much of the anti-CoC crowd, it seems foolish to battle it.