Pretty much every other game has this feature, and for good reason.
Either you’re winning a game and a pilot is constantly whining and demanding targets, or the team is losing badly and some kid starts having a meltdown in chat.
Either way people should be able to mute those sorts of irritating distracting players. Especially when the ones crying about how bad the team is have a K/D of 7-5 after an entire match.
Please add a ‘mute’ option next to each player’s name, so we don’t have to witness yet another little kid lose their minds over a game.