I think this interaction shines light on a problem with regards to invasive species that I've noticed, which is that as science communicators are raising awareness of invasive species, there hasn't been an equally adequate effort in helping people learn how to correctly identify invasive species or even to understand precisely why they are a concern in the first place.
The best example for the first part of the problem I can think of right now is that "murder hornet" trend that engulfed the US back in 2020-2021. That wasn't just an online phenomenon. Academic institutions in real life had received a large amount of reports, calls, and identification requests. And of those thousands of reports, all of them turned out to be false IDs, not a single positive ID of Vespa mandarinia [1]. Furthermore, despite the last positive ID in the United States being from 2021, and WSDA declaring V. mandarinia eradicated from North America, I still see people on this very website talking about trapping and killing "Asian giant hornets" as recently as a few months ago (they were all false IDs).
For the second part, there is a sentiment in the current zeitgeist that doesn't perceive invasive animals as a disrupting element in a niche they don't belong, but as a specific group of animals that are somehow inherently malicious and destructive. This sentiment treats invasive animals as "evil things that came from who-knows-where" instead of delving deeper into the real "why" of it, which is most often of anthropogenic nature, such as global shipping, pet trade, state-sponsored introduction, etc. This line of thinking can and has led people to develop a blind spot for the fact that invasive species (even correctly identified ones) are typically not invasive everywhere; they too have native niches they belong to. For example, many of the most well-known invasive insects in the United States like Asian longhorned beetles, spotted lanternflies, and the aforementioned Vespa mandarinia are actually native to where I live, in Northeastern China, and serve important roles in our ecosystem. They are only a ecological concern when they become "bugs-out-of-place", so to speak.
All this to say, invasive animals are a problem because they are, typically via human activities, introduced into a new environment where have little to no predator/competition and thus could disturb the intricate ecological balance, and not because an insect has somehow become enamored with the idea of classical conquest. Also, that wasp you saw flying by was probably at least 130% smaller than you thought. That's okay. I make the same mistake sometimes.
[1] https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/68/2/38/6605208
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