I get apprehensive around wasps too but it's very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect
As a pest control professional, I assure you that wasps aren't trying to fuck you up. They get aggressive in the late season but for the most part they won't fuck with you unless you are a threat. I've knocked down countless wasp nests with my brush and only been stung a few times. Those times I got stung I was really asking for it by how I went about it. They're also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.
European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they're fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna.
Also "wasps" is a huge group of species and they're hard to generalise about
I like the wasps around my house, they're Apache wasps I think. I've shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.
Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.
The other a felt a shooting pain on my hand out of nowhere. I look down and it’s a wasp. Fucker broke into my house and stung me outta nowhere. Bastard.