Your neighbors and family, for instance, are worth some effort to keep the relationship positive.
Yes. It is absolutely worth avoiding conflict with people you cannot avoid.
I believe the cost/benefit curve is quite nonlinear, and idiosyncratic to each individual, so there’s no way to avoid thinking about it and explicitly trying a couple of different strategies to see what works for you. That doesn’t contradict most of your explicit advice, and your first point that it doesn’t cause much (if any) harm to be mildly disliked by many people.
Also yes. I am an outlier in many different ways. The weirder you are, the greater potential you have to leverage your idiosyncrasies.
Yes. It is absolutely worth avoiding conflict with people you cannot avoid.
Also yes. I am an outlier in many different ways. The weirder you are, the greater potential you have to leverage your idiosyncrasies.