Ethaniel

It seems absurd to downvote because someone likes a mob you hate, or someone isn't voting what you are.

Seriously, that's like the stupidest reason to downvote.

While you do have a point, I've seen much stupider reasons.

Also, people aren't downvoting because you like Phantoms. They might be downvoting you because Phantoms really aren't necessary. At all. Especially when Mending already exists.

Mending is extremely OP and more than enough to fix up your items. It's 2 durability per experience point, and all of the common hostile mobs drop 5 each.
So killing one single Zombie/Skeleton/Creeper/Spider/etc. restores 10 durability, providing an extra 10 seconds of flight for your Elytra.

So unless you're using the Elytra 24/7 constantly, there really shouldn't be a problem if they have Mending.

I don't see whats wrong with downvoting something you don't agree with, if they don't want goats, they can downvote my comment to show their opinions, same goes with your opinion on phantoms. Virtual arrows have no significance in the real world.