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Ability to pause single player games - looking at you Fromsoft!
Their games aren't strictly single player, though. They're designed with the idea that co-op partners or hostile players can drop in and out at any time. Pausing doesn't quite work with that model.
Personally, I like it because it prevents you from cheesing the game Skyrim style by pausing, eating a dozen wheels of cheese, and becoming extremely hard to kill. I even got a mod for Fallout 4 to keep the game running when you look at your pip-boy, just to remove the temptation for cheese and only use the pip-boy in safe locations. Makes me feel less OP, and puts me more in the moment.
Okay, but maybe I wanna go on the toilet and don't wanna get raided right now but turning the game off and on again is stupid. You can still let people out of the system if they're not actively playing.
If that's their way of working, then it's a bad way of working and should be avoided anyways. That is NOT an argument, at all. That's just bad game design.
You can also disable that while pausing the game. It's not a law of the universe that pausing a game allows using the menu.