Anyone who is a motorist and thinks along these lines is BVU because they are poisoning people's air, taking up public space (both while driving and when parked), causing noise pollution, and exacerbating climate change. And they still want priority for road use over those not committing such harms?!
It's victim blaming; people should be able to walk anywhere safely, since that's how humans evolved to locomote. If someone is making a choice for their personal convenience that interferes with that and harms others, they are the one responsible for the results.
Our society has only relied on cars so heavily for the last few decades, and it has to stop. In mainland Europe, drivers are automatically considered more liable for an RTI regardless of whose "fault" it is, precisely because of their greater capacity to cause harm.
This is taken from the proposals for an update to the Highway Code:
"introducing a hierarchy of road users which ensures that those road users who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility to reduce the danger or threat they may pose to others
clarifying existing rules on pedestrian priority on pavements, to advise that drivers and riders should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross the road,"
Though they should already be looking out for people crossing unexpectedly anyway.
You are being less unreasonable because you are a cyclist, not a motorist. But you are still the one who is most likely to cause harm in a collision (higher momentum) with a pedestrian, potentially even kill someone (though much rarer in the case of bikes). And bikes are less noticeable than cars, being smaller and quieter.
Why should people doing exactly what people have always done have to think about oncoming missiles every time they move around? And have their neighbourhoods divided up every few metres by roads? We didn't evolve with those threats. Public space should be arranged around the needs of pedestrians (and wheelchair users).