The point was that you can also just reject an PR on the basis of what it purports to implement, or even just blanket ignore all PRs. You can't pull in what you don't... pull in.
If a PR claims to solve a problem that I don't need, then I can skip its review because I'll never merge it.
I don't think every PR needs reviewing. Some PRs we can ignore just by taking a quick look at what the PR claims to do. This only requires a quick glance, not a PR review.