Is "Spine Chill" and "Premonition" too powerful against stealth killers?

Premonition itself isn't that bad, because you don't know if the killer is coming for you or if they will stay in that general direction. However with Spine Chill, you'll always know the killer is coming for you unless they look away. And even then, that is NOT fun counterplay. Being forced to look sideways when approaching just to counter one perk is both annoying and potentially detrimental if something happens where you would've otherwise been looking.

This is something I've been thinking for a long while now actually to be totally honest. Spine Chill and Premonition uniquely affect Stealth killers far more than any other killer on the roster because that is their entire ability, the element of surprise is what makes them fun to play as and scary to play against.

Stealth killers as a broad category generally don't need direct perk counters like these (especially since the devs are moving away from perk concepts that single out one [and by extension multiple killers] with their rework of slippery meat) considering for the most part they are either generally (arguably) well balanced to begin with (Ghostface & Myers) or are on the weaker end of tier lists (Pig & Wraith) such that perks like these are straight up unnecessary. This, on top of the fact that SWF is a thing, where players can accurately make call-outs if they see a stealth killer walk past or head in a particular direction.

I think instead what should happen is Spine Chill should be nerfed so that it no longer trump's stealth abilities. Why do I say this? Well comparing the two, there is quite literally no reason to run Premonition so long that Spine Chill exists, Spine Chill quite simply is more accurate, with no cooldown it lights up activating at any time that the killer is looking in your direction. Combined with your own personal intuition about the map you're on, where you saw the killer last, or where he / she is most likely to be, it is impossible to be caught unaware with this perk on. Not to mention it provides other really nice abilities as well like faster action speed (repairing, healing, etc.), and vault speed as well. It's powerful and more importantly, it's passive.

Whereas premonition is far more specific since you must be the one looking in the direction of the killer, it is also limited providing only an audio cue, and then is subsequently put on cooldown for a decently lengthy period of time before it can be used again. Beyond this you're not given anything else and have to interpret what that means, the audio cue could just be popping off because the killer was passing close by, or because he's heading in your direction. Whereas this intuition isn't necessary for spine chill, if it stays lit consistently for longer than about 5 seconds, you can guarantee the killer is coming in your direction, if it only flashes, you're fine to continue whatever it is you were doing. This objectively makes spine chill a far superior perk (in their current states) when it comes to information

So what this does is when Spine Chill is nerfed what this does is it levels the playing field between the two perks balancing the relationship between both. Premonition will now be the only perk survivors have access to that trumps stealth abilities, and this makes sense because it requires the survivor to perform some kind of action (correctly look in the killers direction) and has a cooldown. Now with this change there is more incentive to use premonition than before and you have to weigh the pros and cons of what you're looking for, either more passive information and increased action speeds, or "all-encompassing" information that works consistently all the time.

Why not nerf both? Well simply put: because Spine Chill is meta, and Premonition is not. To reduce the gap between the strongest perks and the weakest ones and encourage perk diversity, perks that are most frequently used should be toned down whereas those which are not should be tuned up.

And on a personal note, I say this with a bit of a heavy heart and internal conflict because Spine Chill is my mainstay perk that basically never leaves my loadout. I really don't want to see it nerfed, but at the same time I know this is reasonable and healthy for the game, pushing stealth killers up to greater levels of effectiveness, as well as generally making matches against them more interesting since now you might actually be caught by surprise for once.