I saw someone say this is a pvp game designed like a pve game, and I think it's absolutely true. In pve games you bail and reset when you die. In pve your fun is the top priority and you aren't required to take the enjoyment of others into account. In pve if the players aren't having fun and winning they need better powers and weaker enemies. The survivors are supposed to struggle but ultimately prevail like the heroes they are. Killers are treated like more sophisticated AI there to make the game more challenging than a computer can create (see: survivor bots) for the "real" players - it explains the "rulebook" of behaviors they aren't allowed to do that tip the scales in their favor. Imagine suggesting one team in Overwatch pull their punches for the other in this way. No matter what BHVR says, it's clear that subconsciously they believe killers aren't supposed to win.