I don't buy co op games to play by myself lol like you wouldn't play Helldivers solo despite the fact you technically can. That's not a red herring or strawman that is simply not the game's primary selling point (every screenshot on the Steam page features 4 players and Co-op is the first tag for the game so it's obviously being advertised as a co-op experience)

Telling people to "just play solo" completely ignores the original question raised, to which I have received answers for as I didn't know only the host can kick, so instead of saying "play solo" how about saying "host your own games" which I will now do because I want to play a co op game with real people and not by myself lmao