"Invite to Server" option should be separate from the Block and Add/Remove Friend options
Functionally, these three options serve entirely different purposes. Both the block and remove friend options serve to help exclude a user from interacting with you, and the invite to server option is intended to help a user interact with you.
Organizationally and by design, it makes no sense to put them on top one another. If anything, removing someone from your friends list, blocking them, and muting them should be lumped together and divided by the grey marker.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360054795592
The suggestion post linked above from a year ago also details this design flaw, where many users, myself included, intended to remove a friend/block/mute a user, and instead, ended up accidentally sending them a request to join a server that we're in through a private DM, when we likely didn't want to speak to the individual to begin with.
While we can delete the invite, there are instances where an unruly person has otherwise quickly joined through the invite link, and we can't remove them from a server they aren't wanted in.
This is because of the "Invite to Server" dropdown menu mistakenly being opened when someone is intending to do something else.
EDIT:
Another way of helping fix this issue from a design standpoint could be to increase the amount of time it takes for the "Invite to Server" dropdown to appear.
Maybe a quick loading bar? Or just slightly increase the time it takes for it to appear so that as you move away from the "Remove Friend" option, the dropdown doesn't get accidentally opened when clicking away from the options menu.
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I have this happen pretty frequently as well. It's weird to have it as a sub-menu to begin with anyway, most users don't invite other people to servers very often. Why shouldn't it be a dialog box with an OK button instead, why does it need to be a quick-access sub-menu?
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