Can't hear punching blocks with 'Friendly Creatures' volume off

The bug

When turning the Friendly Creatures volume off, I can't hear punching blocks in survival mode. That may affect some other sound effects but I've noticed only that.

Code analysis

Based on 1.11.2 decompiled using MCP 9.35 rc1

The method net.minecraft.client.multiplayer.PlayerControllerMP.onPlayerDamageBlock(BlockPos, EnumFacing) plays the block breaking sound for the NEUTRAL category instead of BLOCKS.