Please stop wasting time on bad perks. We have real problems.

I have been following online discussions on the Forums, Reddit, and Twitter after the announcement earlier this morning. I have seen a fair number of posts that have compared Wake Up to Sole Survivor and consider Wake Up to be "the lesser of the two evils." While I understand and respect where people are coming from when they share these opinions online to have their voice heard, I feel like we have lost alignment with the main picture.
Make no mistake: Wake Up and Sole Survivor are both doo-doo perks. Wake Up and Sole Survivor were both doo-doo perks twenty-four months ago, twelve months ago, and will be doo-doo perks tomorrow. I will wake up in my bed 30 days from now and I can guarantee you – they will be doo-doo perks then too. The real question is how much resources and time BHVR apparently has time to waste making them slightly less doo-doo to play.
Everyone who reported feeling “upset”, “slighted” or “disgusted” by BHVR’s developer update today quite literally got upset over changes to perks that nobody has run, nobody cared about, and perks that barely anyone will use after the developers waste more time and resources trying to fix the mess they made today. I understand that people were more upset with how BHVR somehow came to their decision than the decisions themselves—but it concerns me to see the main focus of the conversation has reoriented around all “that little-bitty bulls***.”
Tony: “You shoulda never have called me a ‘fat-*** Kelly Price.’”
Antwane/Me to the DBD community: “You get mad off that little-bitty bulls*** though? That’s f**ked up.”
Reference Link:
https://youtu.be/eh1-RLxq_k4?si=tZNgo_bR7O6zvcTz&t=129
At best, it feels like a punishment for people to spend their precious time coming up with new Wake Up buffs and changes as if anything BHVR does about the perk is actually going to increase perk utilization rates for two doo-doo perks. Wake Up and Sole Survivor are both perks that only have value if you survive to see the end of the game. Wake Up does not activate until the game is basically over, and Sole Survivor is a fallback perk if you have no faith in the team you are playing with. By default, these perks are outclassed, outshined, and outperformed by perks that inherently generate value during the trial. Are we really going to pretend that more than five people would choose to play Wake Up instead of Decisive Strike, Windows of Opportunity, Sprint Burst/Lithe because it now suddenly saves a few more seconds than before? This sentiment is reflected in both utilization rate and tier list placement. According to NightLight, Wake Up currently has a 1.51% utilization rate. According to NightLight, Sole Survivor currently has a 1.35% utilization rate. Otzdarva has rated both perks two out of five stars.
The slugging meta has been generating a lot of pain in the community—threads are posted daily about it. The game’s atmosphere has nosedived due to the suicide epidemic—threads are posted daily about it. I no longer feel comfortable recommending the game to friends due to how common ground humping and sacrificing on first hook are in SoloQ—threads are posted daily about it. But here we are, acting as if two doo-doo perks that are going to continue to suck no matter what BHVR does to them are the most important use of our time and energy today. BHVR could delete these two perks entirely from the game and I would only have to purchase condolence flowers for the five people that ACTUALLY WANT to play Sole Survivor and Wake Up over Vigil and Decisive Strike.
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One of my swf members is a dedicated Quentin main who rocks Wake Up religiously. So i can confirm that at least one human runs it and will miss it. Poor Quentins can't have anything nice
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I’m really glad that BHVR is spending time to make sure your friend and the other 4 people that use trash perks behind a paywall have a reason to smile tomorrow instead of addressing real problems that cause people to quit the game.
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Wake up will forever to elude me making it even more of a niche perk LMAO
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