Exactly. I once got berated by a dog owner for turning and running back to a stile as their three large dogs charged at me, and even so I got their muddy prints on my coat. Apparently, it wss my fault, and I should have just stood there because they were just being friendly. Since they were labrador-retrievers, they probably were just being "friendly" in their doggy intent, but there were three of them, they would have easily knocked me off my feet, and I could not actually tell this as they raced at me from a hundred metres away.

I vastly preferred the owner of the enormous fluffy german shephers, which were exquisitely behaved, but who understood that people found them intimidating and so kept them on leads and when someone approached in the opposite direction on their walk would always step aside from the path and command them to sit.