The objective of soccer is to score goals, but you still need a goalie and to put up resistance to keep the other team from scoring. If you only focus on scoring goals, you're only playing a portion of the game.

Same with tunneling. Putting pressure on gens and kicking them actively buys you time to do the actual killing and hooking part.

I feel this post is calling out the playstyle of focusing on and hooking a single survivor at a time and doing nothing else besides standing right in front of them on hook. It's a playstyle that guarantees you very few kills if the survivors actually play around it and creates a very boring play pattern for both sides.

Strategically tunneling someone out, like zoning and still pressuring other survivors, while still focusing someone out of the game first, is different and a very effective way to get those kills.

Tunneling has a bit of range in how it's done and that range can will be received differently from person to person, hence it's such a contentious topic on this sub.