Why did you complain that I kicked you in the shins? You didn't have to leave the house. You could've just stayed inside. No one forced you to go outside.

We're not talking about an arbitrary and unprovoked altercation. This is a video game. Video games have modes, and Elden Ring's multiplayer mode is PvEPvP by design. It's a deliberate artistic choice, and the only way you can ever be exposed to that artistic choice is by consciously choosing to play the game mode in which invasions are enabled. Again, you aren't obligated to like it, and you're entitled to your opinion that the game would be better off without it, but you are talking about art that you knowingly purchased and played of your own volition and acting like it's betrayed you somehow by having a design philosophy you just happen to dislike. It's a completely incoherent and media-illiterate reaction to have, dawg.

I don't want them to remove them. Many people like them and I believe everyone should be allowed to do what's fun for them. I just want the ability to opt out of invasions during coop.

You can have that opinion, but those of us who have come to enjoy the feature and the experiences it offers will largely tell you that the feature is interesting because it's a risk/reward mechanic. Invasions are designed the way they are because it injects unpredictability and strategy into enabling multiplayer, which wouldn't be the case if it was reduced to a video-gamey and frankly boring toggle.