There is a difference between being against cruelty against animals and not eating any eggs.

Hens will lay eggs. That's what they do naturally and if those eggs are not fertilised they will rot and decay.

In veganism you cannot eat those eggs no matter how pampered the hens are.

That's obviously a personal decision, which I respect, but it should also be understandable that many people find this extreme (and not eating honey even more extreme).

You now can buy eggs from producers that don’t do that (at least in Europe).