That's fair. How often are you in this situation? Are you normally closing multiple channels per day? or is this like a once a week finding a channel that isn't doing great kind of event?

I don't see anything wrong with you closing the channel (though it sucks for the recipient). It is your right as a node and nodes opening connections to you are signing up for the risk of channel closing cost. I haven't connected to you (yet) for instance because I know my node doesn't have enough balanced liquidity and performance to do the relationship justice. If I had a connection to you right now, in the state of things, I wouldn't be outraged if you were to close the channel since it would be my operational bad that got me into the state of malperformance.

But also, things happen and not everyone is professionally managing their node--maybe that's a reason not to connect to nodes that are more serious (if you can't take the heat, as they say)...