dying whilst interacting with syndicate members

Why on earth would anyone think this was a good design to basically stop my plyer interacting with the environment but allow the environment to kill me. It is just rediculous - can anyone see a rationale here other than bug?

Yeah, Poe has a big problem with finding safe time to interact with things, including looting. Any time you do anything other than fighting enemies, be ready to hit Esc and get back to it.

It's dumb and I hate it.

Probably does need some improvement. If you know the game you know you need to be careful about this, but even the interaction itself, people often talk about dying to accidentally clicking them and loosing control of character. If you click on it when there is on death effects you can also be in a bad spot.

There was one I had this league where almost died to accidentally clicking on some kind of dialogue. Can't remember exactly what it was, think it was an urn or something in one of the lab trials and just got stuck on it.