Confirmed that it now displays properly with adblock enabled - though of course the message still pops up
Why are ad blockers important? I know you have a very different perspective as a site administrator, but for many users ads are distracting, frustrating, waste time, waste bandwidth (especially on mobile), present a security problem, etc. At least on this site, most of the ads are unobtrusive, but there are a few that redirect to some other site that are REALLY unpleasant.
You said "adblock doesn't protect you from serious exploits" and while that's true, it does *greatly* reduce the likelihood. It blocks HTTP requests so that does prevent many vectors of attack. You're right though that cosmetic filtering (hiding elements) does nothing to protect users. Anecdotally, I have had zero malware infections since I started to use an ad blocker, and the only malware I got before then was from malicious ads.
Ad blocker software is run by large communities, and there are thousands of sites, all of which display ads in different ways. Sometimes a rule that is supposed to block ads on one site inadvertently block important content on another. Lots of people use ad blockers on porn sites too, so it's extremely unlikely that someone is targeting *this site* to make it break
Whether ads work, or are a valid revenue stream, is kind of a big philosophical question of the modern internet and where things will go from here. I don't think either of us can answer it.