OK, even more experienced users don't seem to know anything about this, so I'm going to try and answer my own question.
There is no way to turn Reaper's blacklisting-process off.
In the meantime, the "Fuzz Plus 3"-plugin has crashed Ableton twice, so I deinstalled that.
Didn't like the sound very much anyways.
But while experimenting with all this, I found out that Reaper blacklisted some more plugins, not just the newer distortion-plugins.
For example an older Version (3) of "RealStrat" by musiclab.
I don't use that very often, but in Ableton, I never had any problems with this.
So in general, I would say that Reaper (5.90) seems to be more aggresive than Ableton Live 9.7.6 when it comes to blacklisting.
That might be a good thing if it leads to less crashes, but from my experience, Ableton is not crashing very often.
If I find a plugin to be problematic (like Fuzz Plus 3), I de-install it and there's no problem.
Even with bigger sessions, around 50 Tracks, lots of third-party-plugins, I had no problems with that in Ableton (I would be careful with Max-for-Live-Devices, but that's a different story).
Another thing: If Ableton crashes, almost nothing gets lost.
Next time you start the program, there's an option to rebuild your session from the undo-history, which works quite nice.
If Reaper crashes (happened once while trying out distortion/amp-plugins), everything is lost.
I was just experimenting, so it wasn't a big deal, but if something like that happens with a 50-track-session, it will be.
I thought Reaper might be a great DAW for working with bigger projects/ final mixdown, but now I'm not too sure anymore.
Especially with those bigger projects, some kind of "crash-recovery-option" is really important in my eyes.
One last observation: Even if a plugin is buggy, often there is a workaround.
When Serum by Xfer Records came out, for some time there was a crashing-bug for me in Ableton. If I deleted the plugin, Ableton crashed.
The workaround: don't delete the plugin. Play the pattern and then freeze the track, no need to delete it as it uses no CPU after that.
I guess, if I had tried Reaper at the time, it wouldn't even have given me the chance to find a workaround, Serum would just not have been useable.
Serum let's you import your own wavetables, you can't replicate certain sounds with other synth-plugins, so that would have been a problem.
That's why I prefer less aggresive blacklisting, like in Ableton.
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