I can empathize with the sometimes aggressive blocking, and as you pointed out can be pretty block list dependent.

I generally will go in and whitelist things if a site breaks due to a DNS block, but of course putting your partner on the same VLAN can be problematic. I "got around" that by having a button in Home Assistant that will completely turn off Pi-hole (and now AdGuard). So my partner will go in and toggle that if there's a problem.

AdGuard Home does also have the ability to completely disable blocking for specific clients.