Minecraft is one game, with a very specific atmosphere and environment that Microsoft want to maintain around it. You ain't going to get any gore or vivid sex mods being sold there either.
The EGS is a store. It has a much wider scope, and that includes more controversial topics. I don't see why NFTs should be treated any different, especially when there can be decent uses for them.
Why can't a "store" also enforce a tone? Like what is the problem with that?
If Nickelodeon ran a digital store they'd obviously only sell kids/teen oriented games right?
GOG has a "no DRM" ethos to it, a personal ethos enforced by the owners of... a digital store. (with some small exceptions, but in general you can't release a game on GOG w/ DRM)
EGS has been COMPLETELY based on Tim Sweeney and team selecting what games can come to the store since it's inception too.. like it's the most "editorialized" online store for games at this point maybe with GOG a close second. The dude is just backtracking on everything he's said.. he said no NFT games, said no porn games, said no "crappy" games (again, his personal opinion being enforced).
It's completely normal for ANY store ANYWHERE, digital or not, to limit products sold that go against what their brand represents.
It was completely normal for Tim Sweeney to say porn games aren't a part of the EGS brand too...or NFT games, or "Crappy" games. All things he did in the past.
And the store continues to have editorial guidelines.. so there is that too.
The whole concept of it being "wrong" for a company who sells things, to do any sort of editorializing on them is just so bizarre. Imagine if Walmart was forced to sell sex swings and porn and sex dolls lol