Steam's "Invisible" (appear offline) status not working

Does anyone know if this issue has ever been addressed, or if anyone in the community has found a workaround to be able to actually appear offline in Apex Legends?  I have been suffering from this problem for a long time.  I used to be on Origin a long time ago, and "appear offline" or "invisible" didn't work for me on that launcher either.  If I need to switch back to Origin, or use EA's launcher, or whatever I need to do to be able to appear offline when I play Apex, that would be great. Please somebody let me know. I am pretty sure appearing "Invisible" and "Offline" works for me in every other game I play other than Apex.  This is a big problem for me, because I have bad headaches and other health issues, also bad social anxiety at times, and sometimes I just want to be left alone and play by myself because I feel bad.  Or maybe I just want the challenge of playing with random teammates that day.   Sometimes I've had a long day and don't feel like chatting with my friends.  Maybe I want to play ranked with some randoms I met, but I also don't want to hurt my friends' feelings.  The reason why shouldn't matter.  If we don't want our friends to see that we are playing, then that should be our choice.  I get the feeling that this is an intentional move by EA/Respawn because Apex is a social game and they want people squadding up and having fun together.  Look, I totally get that.  But you have to please understand that not everyone wants to be social with the same group of friends 24/7.  Also, some of us have more than a couple friends, and that leads to even more people with hurt feelings for no reason when you get hit up to play with two different squads at the same time and have to choose one or go with whoever asked you first, etc.  Sure, you can explain and if they are good friends they will understand, but I shouldn't have to explain to my friends why I don't want to play with them.  Even if they don't ask or make a big deal of it, it still feels like I owe them an explanation.  There is no need for this.  I should be able to choose to play offline without making my friends think I don't like them anymore or something (as this is not the case).  As others have said here and in other forums, I really hope I am just missing a setting or something, but when using both "Invisible" and "Offline" settings in Steam, I still get invites from friends.  Even though I can't even view my Steam friends list when "Offline" in Steam, my friends can still see if I am playing Apex.  And no I am not appearing online in Discord, and I don't game on a consistent schedule, so they shouldn't know when I am playing.  Unless my gamer friends are living in my attic and spying on me, I'm pretty sure I am appearing "online" still in game while my status in Steam is set to either "invisible" or "offline".  Neither work.

If anyone from Respawn or EA sees this post, respectfully, can you please at least consider implementing one of the following:

1.) Make it so that your "in game" status always matches your "in launcher" status.

2.) Create an option in the game to change your online/offline status within Apex. 

I can assure you that you would be making way more Apex Legends players happy than you can imagine if you made this change.

I know you all are busy and I appreciate all the hard work you do for this game we love.  If you find my points to be even somewhat valid, can you please consider forwarding this message to whoever has the ability to fix things like this?

Thank you for your time.