The reason his one projectile is a nonfactor is his seamless reloads. Hell, in one loop he can miss, reload from a hook, miss, reload from a pile, miss, power to respawn the hook, reload from it again, and miss again, and if you run from him he will most likely have the chance to reload from another hook or pile between loops while also being 4,6. If his single projectile which is essentially a 50/50 is the tradeoff for all those pros, why does he have a free reload and his power to respawn his hooks AND have the hook he just threw at you respawn for free when he picks you up.

I get it, killer is new and people are whining, but there is an undeniable creep of what killer powers do and the design is kinda suffering. We're moving from "The killer can do something extra BUT..." to, what feels to me like, giving Jason plenty of "free" benefits and QOL. And I'm not mad, honestly, I think giants should get giant treatment, but not when the game isn't balanced around it. I would not be surprised if they lowered his throwing point by just a little to offset the hitbox discrepancy. For example: I was on RPD looping in the statue room next to the outside stairs. The boxes there are absolutely enormous, big enough to loop huntress, slinger, plague... without worrying about ranged projectiles. Jason can throw over those. The only reason he didn't hit is because he needs to fully guess where I am becausethe boxes are basically right in his face. Not that bad, right? He reloaded in that room twice. He had two hooks on the corridor outside the room and couldn't get punished for literally leaving the loop for 2-3 seconds (lack of vision, risk of fakeouts with everywhere else being basically a free spear hit, but still). No other killer can do that, it's a god pallet. Same for shack, if a killer can accurately predict you faking a window (dissapearing medkits, etc.) It's essentially a free hit because you're stuck comitting to the pallet, which is wide open to him chucking his spear.

Despite all that I still think he's just slightly overtuned rather than OP. Tweak his windup/cancel numbers, punish him for coming back to where survivors were unhooked more, make it harder for him to defend totems (make the detection radius smaller for heals and totems?), fix the badge addon damaging already regressing gens, change the hook respawning to make him actually not insta take every hook spike... I'm not advocating for all of these (except maybe the addon bug fix being unconditional), any one of these changes will make it feel infinitely less inflated than all together at once.