On the flip side, I have written things that got significantly more attention that I had expected and probably came across to the project maintainers as hating on their work–and that is with multiple drafts to make it clear that this wasn't my intention. There might be random people who like to persecute individuals and their work for no good reason, but even harder to deal with are the people who have been invested in the project before and you've made unhappy; doubly so if you've reached the point where you're not interested in having certain conversations and your governance structure makes it difficult for them to feel heard. Really, this is not a simple problem and I think it's more nuanced than "people will take your Code of Conduct and use it to nitpick you and call your work stupid on the internet", when there's a whole spectrum of "this maintainer has been closing all conversations of a contentious topic by citing the governance structure" to "we made an unpopular but necessary decision that we did not explain well enough and that's causing everyone to come out of the woodwork to harass us".