>and those who are unaffiliated should not have to walk on eggshells to appease those who choose to practice in public.

How does praying in public cause others to "walk on eggshells"?

Have you ever been on a plane full of Muslims or Jews when it’s prayer time?

What's the problem? They are the blocking the aisles? It seems like you are trying to solve Y, when it's X you care about.

If you want to pray before your meal, that doesn’t affect me. If we’re eating together and you want to pray before your meal, I can stay respectfully silent for 30 seconds, because it’s not that much to ask. If you insist I join you in prayer, or that I must kneel, etc. then yes, we have a problem. I have never found the latter case to exist.

Remember - tolerance only goes one way. They will not accommodate you.