I was harvesting resource nodes outside Rimmen in Northern Elsweyr today.
I had begun my harvesting trip with an available inventory space of 100.
For over an hour I was minding my own business, harvesting resource nodes, without a care in the world,
when I suddenly saw a Psijic Cache having spawned in the place of a Runestone node.
I went to it as fast as I could, reached it, OPENED it (emphasis on OPENED), and saw its contents:
1 Jejota, 1 Oko, 15 Odra, 1 Purple rarity Exceptional Infused Ring, and 1 Blue rarity Darloc Brae Ring.
As I had reached 99 out of my 100 inventory though, I decided to close the node and destroy any unwanted
materials and items I had by that point, in order to harvest the entire node.
In the literal MILLISECOND that I closed the node and pressed I to open my inventory though, another player swooped in out of nowhere
and took the node right before my very eyes. A node that, as I already mentioned, I had already OPENED.
OPENED as in "by right of conquest it now belongs to ME". OPENED as in "FINDERS KEEPERS, [snip]!". You get the point.

Now, please try to imagine that a similar situation happens to you, not ingame, but in actual real life.
You wake up one good sunny day, brush your teeth, get out of your cozy house, and start walking down your neighbourhood street,
right outside your home. As you walk, you suddenly spot a 100€ / 100$ bill lying on the street. You hurry to it, reach it,
PICK IT UP, you are now HOLDING it right in your FINGERTIPS, you are LITERALLY TOUCHING IT, when suddenly from the opposite side of the road,
a random man charges at you (NOTE: it is NOT the man that originally lost the 100 €/$ bill, it is just a random passer-by just like you),
howling at the top of his lungs "MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE !", tackles you and grabs the bill RIGHT from your FINGERS.

I don't know about you, but personally I would immediately consider this hostile action against me THEFT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY,
therefore I would attempt to use LETHAL FORCE to put the [snip] down and retrieve what is RIGHTFULLY considered my PROPERTY.

The true question now is, WHY in real life I have the right to protect my property, but in ESO I do NOT ?
And I assure you, it is not the first time that I face this situation in ESO of course.
I count a whooping 15 times I had this exact same thing happen to me in a span of 3 years of ESO gameplay time.

Personally, as not only an ESO player, but a human being with human rights, I wish to propose to ZOS to take action
in order to protect NOT only ME, but ANY player that has faced or will face a similar situation,
by introducing one or all of the following mechanics:

When a player opens a treasure chest / resource node, that node is Bound to that player either for:
a) an X amount of time, let's say 2 minutes, in which time no other player can access the Node.
b) resource nodes now have a player proximity mechanic, where the Node is Bound to the player that accessed it
as long as the player remains in X meters from the Node, let's say 10 meters.
c) Resource Nodes are unique for each and every player, similar to 4-man Dungeon treasure chests. Each and every player
can access a personal version of each and every node. The node that player A opened in position X is
either invisible or has different contents to player B,
and if player B opened a node in position Y, it is invisible or has different contents to player A.

[Edited for profanity bypass]