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So once everyone is hooked once, you can get rid of one person by mori. Great! Now why should Nurse get the same treatment as Pig who worked for the 4 hooks 1000x harder? The problem in tunneling is that it's efficient on strong killers and mostly not against good teams with bad killers. Why all the comp Blights with 4 slowdowns tunnel at 5 gens? Because they have best chance to win every game like that. If you manage to do the same with killers like Ghostface or Dredge than yeah just the team was bad. But the overall balance can't work untill strenght difference between killers is that high. Do you feel like Ghoul who ended on Badham and managed to obtain 4 hooks at 4 gens left deserves the same treatment as Pig that ended on Badham and most likely won't be even capable of hooking everyone once?

The reason killers tunnel out survivors is because tunneling is the most effective tactic to win games. This is because there is a fundamental difference in team efficiency between three survivors and four survivors. If a killer has hooked a survivor and has started a chase or patrolling gens, the pressure they develop is substantially different vs 3 survivors than vs 4 survivors.

Against four survivors, one is hooked, one is in chase, two are on gens. When one survivor gets off gens for the rescue, one generator is still potentially being progressed. Against three survivors then the exact same situation means no generators are being progressed. If the killer is not chasing any survivor, then the four survivor team has double the progression of the three survivor team. The principle is the same for reseting, healing, setting up boons, or any other potential survivor action. The advantage of tunneling is so substantial there needs to be a genuine reason to not tunnel for a killer who wants to win.

If the killer gained a single use Mori they could use on any survivor after 4 fresh hooks before the first death, then they might just be tempted to not tunnel until they got the four fresh hooks. A mori can be used to skip a hook state on a strong survivor, confirm a kill on a slug below a pallet, increase efficiency by cutting down on a long hook walk, or dodge a sabotage attempt. There are numerous benefits that are tempting enough to dissuade from Tunneling. It could have implications for obsession builds, and there could be a lot of skill expression in choosing the right time and target to use the Mori.

On the survivor side, I think this would also be beneficial, as spreading hooks extends the game being in a four player state which is the most fun. Subjectively, I think being moried at one hook stage would feel a lot less unfair than being hard tunnelled from the start of the match. Plus, it would make the mid-game incredibly tense and frightening, suddenly the killer is at their most dangerous at a time when there are only 1-2 generators left. Both sides are on the verge of winning and it could (hopefully) be anyone's game.

The big issue with this system comes about when one survivor stealths to deny the killer the 4 hook Mori. This is a legitimate strategy, but it would circle around to encouraging tunneling again as the killer will probably end up just chasing the next survivor they see and tunneling the rest of the team anyway. If the Mori could also be activated with a 5-6 normal hooks before the first death, then I think this would mitigate the effectiveness of "Hard" stealthing and dooming your team, while keeping the "Soft" situational stealthing to deny the killer the Mori for as long as possible and to allow the rest of your team to reset. I think 5 hooks is the best number for this, this gives the last player a chance to generate pressure by stealthing, but once the killer has hooked another survivor, they could tunnel that survivor straight out. If the 5th hook before a death gives them a mori, then the killer is incentivised to go after a new target and give the death hook survivor a chance. This also incentivises the stealthing player to come out of hiding and take chase, as no matter what the next hook the killer will get either a kill or a Mori.

I think that this is a good way to balance tunneling, but I would love to hear some feedback below.