Which role would you say is "easier"?

Both easy to play, both hard to master.

I think that its way easier to learn to play survivor decently, than learning killer. Killer is just a bit harder (at least for me) to learn and I think, that you have to really learn the ability to listen to footsteps, read scratchmarks correctly, hear moaning and crying, see bloodtrails etc. For survivor you do not really have to learn much, atleast I cant think of something right now. So I think, that overall the role survivor is easier.

Both roles have their difficulties.

While survivor has a lot to learn how to loop when to go from hook save or fix the gen. Once you learn one survivor you've learned em all. While you can't play the same way going from Billy to Hag. Or Trapper to Doctor.

Survivor is definitely less stressful, but getting a 4k with a killer feels more rewarding than escaping as a survivor.

As a person who's played mostly survivor and cannot make it past R15 vs. just starting to play killer I have to say Killer is easier. I can rip my hair out trying to get anything done as survivor and just barely scrape by with 4k BPs. On Killer, I can 'lose' via not getting a 4k, and still make out with over 50K bps to actually progress to having perk builds on my characters. I never feel like I'm actually losing bc of this, even against really good SWFs I've encountered. And bc I know how godawful it feels to try and get any reward as Survivor (prolly why you end up with 'toxic' SWF) like..they never make me mad. Cuz I'm still making absolute bank and actually able to try out different builds. Good luck doing that on Survivor even after a good chunk of hours, at least in my experience.

Survivor alone is fine..It is when you have a SWF does It make a Killer role harder.

Neither of those are the easiest or the hardest, all depend on how much you have experience on each side.

A survivor main could find the game hard as killer and vice versa.

Also as a solo survivor i definitly couldn't say which one is the hardest between killer and solo surviving.

From easiest to hardest:

SWF - Killer - solo Q.

The difficulty of the killer role is very dependent on which killer you are playing, of course.

I'm saying both sides for sake of the fact that SWF is stronger than Killer, but Killer is stronger than solo queue survivors.

Communication is strong and when the game seems to be balanced around the idea of such and forgetting of SWF or even doing related to it, then you have this problem where killers are getting mad because SWFs have that edge over them and can easily abuse and bully them, but solo queues can't and even in my own experience I can get left to struggle phase because gens before friends.

This doesn't mean a solo queue team can't make it out, it has happened and will happen, generally solo queues are somewhat same level as a killer if not lower at times when matchmaking doesn't get you same ranked players.

Which in case of solo queueing you'll have to end up doing more than 1/4 of the work, whenever because they died or did nothing is a different story but in an ideal scenario, yes.

It'd technically mean every survivor has to spend 100 seconds on a generator.

80 for each seperate generator and 20 each for that last gen so all five gens are done. But of course that can shift heavily based on how much teammates do stuff and any regression perks on killer.

As a killer you have to worry about time in general. Time is a precious thing and things like Ruin and Pop will grant you more of that time since a generator is done in 80 seconds.

But I will even say that survivor CAN be stressful especially in a typical solo queue experience when your teammates drop like flies or don't pop gens or anything whiles in a chase, both sides have their own stress factors with varies of things to make it easier like the "Second chance" perks for survivors and all the regression perks and NOED for killer.

Both roles have their own distinctions on their difficulties imo. Survivors have less to worry about, mainly gens and unhooking a survivor if need be. Killers however have to juggle their focus between gen pressure and all four survivors, if they go off track for just a bit too long the survivors (if played well) can progress significantly on gens. Killer tends to be more stressful as a result, constantly dividing attention to four different players while trying to keep them from their duty. That isn't to say survivors are stress-free, as a single mistake in looping or an oversight when stealthing can change the course of their game, and thus, the rest of their teams survival. Both survivor and killer have to rely on outsmarting the other player, which is dependent on the players themselves and not the role they play. Killers also have a much more variable set of gameplay circumstances, such as going against a coordinated swf team or solo/uncoordinated players. An extremely coordinated group can outright steal the game from a killer, while the killer has much more control over a game of solo/uncoordinated players.

TL;DR Both sides can be easy and both sides can be hard depending on the circumstances ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would say survivor strictly for the reason a mistake is generally less punished then on killer. That is not always true for sure, unhooking in front of a bubba will go a bit more than punished, but still. With that being said, solo q is by far some of the least fun and hardest to play games i've ever had, no matter how much killer can suck sometimes.

as it's meant to be. obviously killer is harder because you work alone and your task is to work for entity

That's interesting, for me it's the complete opposite. I used to be a Killer main but it started getting so stressful and frustrating that I started mainly playing survivor. Survivor has moments where the tension spikes but there's also plenty of downtime on gens. It's mainly only tense if there's a stealth killer and you don't have spine chill. Slap on Spine chill and playing survivor becomes pretty chill. Gens are fairly boring though so survivor for me is more chill but with the trade-off of having all the boring objectives.

Both roles have their ups and downs

Huh, I get what you mean.

Survivors have a lot more going for them, there's 4 players as a team and SWF. Although the difficulty difference isn't as large as a lot of people perceive it.

Survivor is easier, for sure. As killer, you are alone. If you make a mistake, there is no one there to help you fix it. Survivors are a team (even if not a good team sometime), so it's usually much easier than playing killer.