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My understanding is that Nvidia's move was universally condemned.

AMD's just taking advantage of Nvidia's blunder.

Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.

nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades

e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores

486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.

Why did Nvidia work to block crypto mining on their video cards? (I don't buy "because gamers couldn't buy them")

Can someone explain why they think nvidia really did this?

The cards that have access to mining lack a video output. Once they become unprofitable to mine with they won’t impact the gaming market on resale.