Gracie is a skating professional, so if she looses her ability to skate then she she is just a private person. We may hold memories of her when she used to be a skater, but again: she is a skater, and a skater is supposed to skate, not to make a big fuss about some imaginary "feelings".
I don't think Gracie herself has made any kind of fuss.
Some people are less cold-blooded than you are, and do consider people as human beings as well as considering "what can they do for me". I'm kind of in the middle, toward the cold side, about most professionals I deal with. It didn't bother me much that my surgeon was a bit of an *******, as long as he was a good surgeon, but I'm really glad my regular doctor is pleasant and reasonably caring as well as competent, since I rely on his judgment and see him on an ongoing basis.