Current Invasion Meta

Bad title because I don't know shit about the Meta. Anyway, I've been playing souls likes since ds1 and have played them all. I've always been a solo player, but loved to get into invasions once I beat the game. My main Elden Ring save is ~RL200 and invading was a blast, lots of variety and fun areas (Haligtree my beloved). I've been wanting to do some low level invading so I made a new character at RL60 and played the game for a long while so I can get items, craftables, and so on so I could have a neat build. I'm doing this and thinking about how if I can beat Mohg I can get into the DLC and such and get some stronger craftables, bell bearings and new weapons... So that's hard, and I still haven't gotten my 4th talisman slot so I decide to finally start invading while I run through Lyndell.

Fast forward through many losses, and a couple wins and I've come to the realization: These people are built different than me.

I get on here and join this sub reddit and learn about Twinking, OLPs and the like - I've seen them but now I have a name for it - A few questions pops up in my head. How many people actually dupe ingredients? Are password phantoms that common? Who the heck is giving away all the equipment to the twinks?

I love Elden Ring but hot damn, the invasion atmosphere is just different than it used to be post DLC.