Yeah. As useful as it's been for circumventing censorship, it does mess with uninvolved third parties. It rather uses them like hostages
Did Google stop domain fronting as a censorship move? July 29, 2018 https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/07/29/google-stop-domain-fronting-censorship/
OK, so maybe this form of domain fronting is dead meat. But can't one always setup a server somewhere that won't likely get blocked, and pull content from a blocked server through an encrypted channel? Or even through a Wireguard VPN, or whatever?
Wickr gets slicker with fresh network tricker: Privacy-protecting domain fronting alternative emerges https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/23/wickr_slicker_with_fresh_network_tricker/