Guild Wars 2

I was playing a greatsword guardian and was in the middle of fighting another guardian from a different server. It was a pretty close fight so i had about 1/5 hp when he went down. While he was downed I was hacking him with my sword trying to get him to use the knockback guardian skill so I could come back and finish him (I was also close to going down). Suddenly, this random stag just shows up from behind me and just happens to decide to walk ON the guys body? You can guess what happens next. My gs attack cleaves the stag, I get downed and have the dude AND the stag both attacking me. Its pretty funny I suppose but left me wondering what the point of these animals are in wvw and why they arent 1 hit kill animals to prevent them from interfering with fights.

I see them as there for exactly what happened.
A fun thing to do is to get jumped by more than 1 person, run into enemies, stealth out and let them have the aggro.
They are flavor, they make area effects more dangerous on the space.

True i mean if it were something that was normally aggressive like a drake then i would understand and it would obviously be up to the players to take this into account. But this creep was a neutral one (so yellow by default). I mean I dont mind the animal being around the area in the first place I’m just judging the animal ai for deciding to walk into the path of a sword haha