HoD aggro range

I have been trying to figure this out, because PoE and OV never seemed to be too troublesome for things like fishing or conservation... but HoD feels like constant attack...

The smaller map may be part of the issue, but there’s definitely something screwy about aggro ranges - particularly with the purple scratchy-kind.

I know often mobs will spawn very close and aggro and I’ll have to fight them off, but that fight seems to trip some alarm and half the map starts heading my way. The only clues being the constant aggro music and purple dots flying across the map at me randomly... then I’ll have all kinds of random mobs chase me too, but the purple critters will be barely peeking over a hill and be well outside of effective range but still shooting at me as they inch closer.

It’s really making doing the farming tasks just more annoying because sensitive things like mining or trying to tag an animal perfectly get interrupted by aggro for no reason at all. I’ve lost lured animals because one of those purple jerks got too close and scared it off when it wasn’t even in my sight line.

Now going back to Plains and Vallis, I do notice some odd behavior with mob aggro when they spawn somewhat nearby - like they’re spawning purposely to attack me, but generally I don’t have Moas chasing me from across the map... plains does have the odd patrol of flyers or a random spawn here and there that seemingly comes out of nowhere - but not like The Drift... where I can observe no nearby hostiles but then the music is still playing and I notice a very distant purple worm peeking and shooting. If I’m sitting still, I’ll get stung by the weird flying squids randomly but then they’ll fly away and drop aggro too. I know the environment is supposed to have this “hostile living world” vibe to it, but the hostiles are just weirdly aggressive to where they can’t even see my frame in a cave and will come for me despite nothing else around to alert them.