A lot of people seem to take PvP more serious than it should be. Bayer is open for what? 7.5 hrs a week? out of a total playtime of 168hrs a week. This alone should show you all how unimportant Bayer is.
Vegi, reguarding your initial post, all I have to say is most people have fears and they can get pretty real. But I´m pretty sure that most of the players don´t give anything about some pixels getting "killed" by other pixels and being back in game 5 seconds later. So I doubt there is anything like fear included in Bayer. I would guess it´s just the normal trashtalk that is going on between the so called cool PvPers.