I feel like if there should be special consideration made, it should be for those who are 'just' doing bounty and not those slaughtering baddies wholesale.

Reason being, you get noobs trying to fight randomly and bkers trying to poach your kills while doing bounty and it's just annoying (not really even upping the difficulty, just frustrating having to actively avoid them). People who are actively bking have a leaderboard. They are competing with each other. For a prize. Let them duke it out.