Pedestrian solipsism

I wonder if it's to do with us being faster riders than the norm? I mean typically, for a given stretch of road, my cruising speed seems to be about 50% faster than every other rider I come across, I imagine a lot here experience similar. Maybe the peds are just conditioned to most cyclists tootling round at a snail's pace?

No it's not.

it's the fact that peds, if they look at all, are looking for motorised vehicular traffic. You are not this, so that means they can step out and it becomes your responsibility, not theirs, to avoid a collision.

Humans are lazy, peds don't want to walk an extra two metres to use a proper crossing, if they do, cyclists are too lazy to stop for them anyway.