Well I understand that it's annoying to get rushed immediately when the game starts, even though I am usually one of the players who rush either middle island as soon as the game starts or some of the opponent teams. But I would like to point out that some players are voting for hardcore items+half health to rush opponent teams even faster, because you only need to hit your opponent once for them to die. This is most likely the reason why Cubecraft has decided to remove half health completely in the next
Eggwars update. So it's safe to say that players would most likely still rush opponents with normal or hardcore items even if overpowered items were removed.
I think by removing overpowered items Cubecraft would lose most, if not all dedicated Eggwars players at the same time. This may sound good at first, because all of the tryhards are not there to rush others. But this would make the gamemode way less popular too, which might even lead to Cubecraft removing the whole gamemode later.
Well this is true too. Some players have bought either Diamond or Obsidian rank to vote in Eggwars, but there are no seperate ranks for each gamemode in Java. You can vote in all of the gamemodes if you have Obsidian rank for example.