Dude, as long as you’re touching unclimbed rock. The sky is open for your interpretation. This is coming from someone who has put up and been a part of about 50 routes, mostly mixed climbing. The trick here is to not bolt cracks. The real sticky part is making sure the gear is good. I know some who say if you can get “any” gear in, its gear. Where other definition of gear is “would it hold a ten foot fall”? If not then its not gear. So then you have to make a decision. Bolt or no bolt. Either way if you are first accentionist and do try your darnest to do it right. Then everybody else can fuck off. If you don’t like it, go climb something else. Putting up a route is like a piece of art. You do it how you see fit! Not everybody likes others artwork. I know some will disagree. However; we as climbers have to respect the first accentionists! We have to respect our forefathers, respect the people who came before us. This would include sport routes.
I am tired of the old argument. Climbers wanting to retro a scary runout climb. and complain about it “its scary and hard and you may get hurt. And the Crack heads state “if you don’t like it go climb something else.” Well I through that shit right back at you. If you don’t like how I bolted “my route, my art work” when I was the first person to clean, then you can go climbe elsewhere! Just my thoughts