You are correct. The penalty for being offline is relatively mild, and proportional to how long you are offline. It's creating blocks that are mutually conflic

You are correct. The penalty for being offline is relatively mild, and proportional to how long you are offline. It's creating blocks that are mutually conflicting, due to deliberate malevolence, or an accidentally misconfigured node, that leads to large penalties, and the probability of that happening is not a function of connectivity.