is there a way to allow profile method on Kratos without allowing the user the update their email? I just need to update some traits but enabling the profile self service method allows the user the update their email.

In theory you could use a flow-interrupting settings hook, although currently this doesn't work due to a bug

are there alternatives? the trait I added is

language

so I could record the user's language settings and I want the user to be able to update the language without allowing them to modify their email

Not sure I am definitely not an expert but you could always use the admin API to update the traits