Losing friends over your values hurts. Keeping friends who require you to drop them hurts more.

Friendships that ask you to shrink your values are not free just because they feel comfortable. Losing them hurts in an obvious, immediate way, and keeping them hurts in a slower way you notice as a low hum of not quite recognizing yourself. One of those pains ends, and the other keeps charging you.

If you are in that squeeze, you do not owe anyone a dramatic exit. Get quieter, get busier, spend your energy where it costs less. Build something with new people before you need it, so that leaving is a move toward something.