Yeah, the whole eggshells thing shouldn't be how it is. People should definitely be careful with opinionated downvotes or at the same time not be too scared over downvotes, but at the same time there should be others willing to get in the way of badly used downvotes as well to protect when/if they're being used.

Honestly in the last few months I've only noticed one such case where a user was being downvoted based on their geolocation which was absurd and I believe was put a stop to it quickly.

There's a lot more cases where bad actors cry foul and are very loud when 99% of the time they've done something that warranted the downvotes but others are too protective/fearmonger about them leaving to accept that the downvotes were justified. They're quick to judge the downvoter even though they may have a near perfect track record in general just because the downvote happened and jump to defend the "victim". We need less of that in my opinion because being the downvoter out there to protect the pool is way more important than just ignoring it and not doing anything because it may harm your own returns.