I do not find it outrageous to receive a blessing from a priest when not in a sufficient state to receive communion. Christ blessed sinners all the time. That being said the sacrament of reconciliation is seriously underutilized.
The state of the priests soul is irrelevant. He is the in person am Cristi.
I’m an EME. If someone walks up to me and says, I am living in sin but want Communion anyway I would not offer the host. Other than that I do not know the state of his/her soul.