Very Lost Feathermane Kitten stealth issue

While I understand the need to prevent people one-shotting this npc so hunters can tame it, I do find it annoying that it has level parity with characters and can remain stealthed while burning them down.

I had just killed Gloomfang using Azure Strike while doing the “Prongs and Fangs” quest and very likely landed AOE damage on the Very Lost Feathermane Kitten. This seems contrary to what I recall from some previous statement that stealthed targets cannot be targeted or hit by damaging spells unless otherwise detected. And, buddy, let me tell you I did not see the VERY MUCH stealthed Very Lost Feathermane Kitten until I stood still long enough to be more than half-way to dead so I could tab-target it and give it some “special attention” ™.

There has to be some better solution than the current one to prevent this NPC from being one-hit by murder-hobos than giving it stealth superior to anything else in the game.