Found this on Wikipedia.
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ”
—Charles de Gaulle (don't use this quote as being from Charles de Gaulle. It is falsely attributed to him. See the Quote Investigator. - Regan)
If you need to leave, you can be replaced. If you were doing an essential function without anyone else helping you, either the community will do without or someone else will take over and pick up where you left off. Either way, you don't need to lose sleep over the fate of your Wiki-work.
On a more sober note, no individual contributor is so essential that consistent poor behavior will be tolerated. While it is true that idiosyncrasies are more tolerated in established editors with a track record of good contributions, the community has sanctioned any number of editors who made positive contributions to the encyclopedia because their behavior failed to uphold the civility pillar.
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