I don't think power bars are the way to go when dealing with reworks.

There's a time and a place for a power bar, specifically when a killer has a pretty much OP ability (Think Oni) and instead of having something ok at all times, he gets a limited but thrill rushing point in any game where he can straight up become OP, without really being OP.

Billy is not one of these killers.

This may only be my perspective, and I'm sure many others will agree/disagree, but his base power is not considered OP due to the counterplay that exists will billy that simply doesn't exist with Oni. This is why oni has a power bar and billy does not. I think that therefore, he doesn't need a basekit powerbar.

I know there is a time and place for these bars, but I believe there is a line between something needing a bar, and something not needing it at all. We've seen this before with Nurse, which while not entirely universally condemned, made Nurse buggy, more unfun, and a great deal more difficult to play (saying this from a perspective of someone who's played her since she released). Before the only outcry was her addons, and for billy it was similar. Engravings and instant saw were seen negatively.

Thing is, with the case of billy almost unanimously people think his basekit is completely fine. The percentage of people who don't like his base power are small in comparison to the percentage that think it's in a good place (I don't have statistics, but this is an inference based on over 4 years of gameplay and actively participating in community discussion even on the steam forums).

Instead of addressing what is (most likely) the majority's issue, you've been doing extra work. While in many aspects this is commendable, I think in turn you are hurting yourself more than doing good for the players.

And now that this hard work is done, I don't expect someone who worked on these ideas for potentially weeks to be very complacent with just tossing the ideas away. They worked for it, they don't want to see their idea tossed into a garbage bin. But even with this struggle, we need to face reality and do what should be done, instead of what we liked to have done.

It's happend with Nurse, and now it's happening to billy. No one asked for it, yet now that the work has been done it's highly likely we won't see these changes reversed no matter what is said about "The PTB not being final."

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: Also we should note that billy now makes a growl sound when he goes into sprint. This is a change which is somewhat pointless as it only limits his ability to mindgame curves. A survivor should need to predict if there is no LOS as to if billy is going to saw, and I can see this being a huge detriment in very high level play where billy needs to predict what a survivor is going to do in order to get a down. Survivors don't need to have this amount of info on a killer, they already know he's revving.