The other peer pressure here is to pull the trigger on ER ASAP. I think people are very helpful here to make sure that ER candidates have really figured out their budget, asking questions about whether pensions have a COLA, if medical is really covered, etc. But at times I've seen an attitude that one should ER as soon as you are at the 4% SWR rate. I almost felt apologetic that I wasn't comfortable without a better buffer. I'm a pretty stubborn person so I held out until I was ready. Maybe the peer pressure was really just in the form of encouraging those who were able and wanted to but were afraid that it might not be OK, and nobody is losing sleep over pulling the trigger before being ready. I also see less of that peer pressure now. I suspect a weak economy has made everyone a bit more cautious.
Somebody is probably going to ask me for examples, and like I said recently I haven't seen much of this, and I'm not going to go back and dig through past posts. It's just something I definitely noticed when I first came onboard.