For me, the Hide-React feature can only be limited to people with Established and higher status as long as you have maintained your active participation in this forum. Of course, there's a chance that some channels will require the users to get trophy points when you share a post whatever you want. So, if I were to improve it, how about try to do a multiplier on certain channels to the if they manage to post in an approriate channel, which gives you in the range of x0.75 (for regular users) to x2.0 (for higher-leveled users such as Elite and Contributor) while anything else like general and other stuff will get less multiplier (i.e. x0.3 or x0.5). Also, users can still comment, which will still give them less multiplier except if you have the Established status and above, you can get a x1.0 multipier. That way, it will give everyone a challenge on trying to maintain its active participation as long as you're here to contribute to the forum. Hopefully, this helps the forum improving.
So, as for to remove the Hide-React feature, I'm opposing it to remove.