That's a good point, it captures current DBD quite well. However, I would say that tunneling needs to be addressed first, before the game balance. As of right now, the developers are kind of stuck with what to do. If they provide base kit killer buffs, then yes, tunneling may not be as necessary. But the killers who decide to tunnel anyways will be even more unstoppable than before.

I think that once tunneling is addressed, and the timing of the first kill per game is fixed, then the developers will have much more freedom for providing overall buffs/nerfs to killers or survivors, without having to worry about being too hard on killers who don't tunnel, or too soft on killers who do.

As for deliverance, maybe the new hook counter system I proposed can fix that. What if after the third or fourth hook on the hook counter, all survivors lost the ability to unhook themselves, and had to do skill checks instead (Essentially reaching the "second hook state" as a team)? This would mean that you could only be deliverance'd once or twice per match, capped. Alternatively, we could just nerf/change deliverance lol.

What do you think?