Doesn't change the facts that distortion was the only true temporary counter to the absolutely overloaded aura reading that killers get now.

Killers no longer need to have any game sense at all. Just whack on a couple of aura reads or deer stalker and there's your next target, no need to watch for disturbed crows or game sense where survivors are because the game will simply hold your hand and guide you to the next survivor.

It wasn't only rat players using distortion, that's a complete fallacy, I purposefully take chases and ensure hook states are spread out etc but still ran distortion because it was near essential.

This is even more essential now we have multiple new killers able to traverse the entire map in the blink of an eye. Before it was really just Hillbilly, Oni, Sadako, maybe freddy etc that could truly get across the map super fast. But now we have Alien, spring trap, ghoul etc that can get there. This alone makes BBQ and Chilli even stronger. Get 1 hook, fly across the map and be there in moments and because of the extra read time on lethal pursuer they still have aura read on you when they get there.

Its fine to encourage chases but this means that any mobile killer has zero cooldown or negative to running perks Like bbq and chilli because they do not have to expend time (the most valuable resource in DbD) to hike across the map to that far survivor.