a player interacts with a 'machine' and monsters attack the character during that interaction

Activating levers, lying down on the surgeon flesh bed in temple, you get the idea, things like this cause an interaction between a character and an object, that stops the character from being able to attack monsters during that interaction,
but it doesn't stop the monsters from attacking characters during the interaction.......

Why in the goddamn hell is this a thing in the game and why does it continously appear in more content that you add??

Stop this at once, stop the monsters from being able to attack a character during the interaction. It is very annoying and it's not some type of potential exploit for a player, when at the same time the character can't attack monsters either.