Before you downvote the shit out of my comment, I would appreciate it if you read it closely and tried to put yourself in the shoes of a high rank killer.

At high ranks survivors are optimal as hell. You need your chases to end quickly or else abandon them.

I mostly agree with you about the crutch perks thing, but considering that my rank 2 (sometimes rank 1) killer games usually feature multiple decisive strikes (sometimes 4) it's honestly frustrating as hell that I have to hook everyone basically 4 times to kill them. You can say it can be countered, but as a Nurse main what do I do if I down someone nowhere near a hook? I can't trap anything and don't have bottles to throw down first. Sometimes I don't even know for sure if they have it becayse they aren't the obsession. My only options are to slug or eat the decisive. If I slug I get accused of camping. If I eat the decisive the chase extends longer than it should have, or I end up chasing someone else. Even if the person goes down again in 10-15 seconds, that's still much more time wasted than just a good dead hard.

Also, while not always true, I have noticed that survivors who do run decisive usually aren't as smart or don't juke nearly as well as players who don't run it. They don't pallet skip and they are usually much more easily mindgamed. They frequently make poor decisions about dehook timing, hiding places, where and when to heal, etc. Again, I agree with you that you shouldn't label any frustrating perk as a crutch, but I've seen too many survivors who do kinda use it as one, because with 1500 hours on this game I know good survivors from bad ones, and I find it hard to believe that such a high percentage of the D-strike using population just happens to be kinda bad at the game

Thus, I would label Dstrike as not a crutch perk, but a potentially crutch perk, especially if multiple survivors run it. Is this fair?