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Agreed. I can understand in MMOs, but if I'm the only one playing, the game should stop when I say stop.
At least make it an option in the accessibility settings if it's not "the developers' intended experience".
It took me forever to get used to it in sekiro.
I've got kids, if I'm playing while they're up I have to be able to drop everything on a dime to go stop them from managing to kill themselves because that happens about 3x an evening
There's several games I'd like to play but simply don't because I cannot pause. Like I get it, single player is just booting up the multiplayer server without networking so only you can join, but also it's only a single player so they should be able to pause the engine whenever they want to