Pop Goes The Weasel: Problem? Or not?

You're missing the point. You should absolutely use it, but only in appropriate situations. In situations where survivors are not going to be able to get on the gen soon, that 2-3 seconds to kick the gen can ultimately net you quite a bit of time wasting (if survivors cross the map to stop the regression) and/or regression (if they don't, or if you intercept them). You shouldn't just kick any old gen.

The reason to buff something would be poor killer performance, not the usefulness of that one specific mechanic. It's just one of the many levers the devs can pull to affect overall balance, if needed.

That's just it though. They are substantially better and more experienced than the players they're matched up with. They often literally play this game for a job, and have 5k+ hours in the game. And STILL, all of these people with more combined knowledge than probably everyone in this thread KNOW that the game is survivor sided. It's not even a debate.

At the same time, gens go fast regardless. So it shouldn't really matter.

is fine, not all the killers are able to down survivors fast enought to be able to reach the gen anyways

They do though. Watch that debate scott had when they were talking about hooks vs kills. Literally every person in there didn't even debate the idea that survivors are too powerful at high level, it wasn't even a question, it was just a given. Scott even said at the beginning. "We all know that survivors at high skill are too powerful" It wasn't even part of the debate.

So, in other words, Scott started his video with a common belief fallacy and as a result there's no room for debate?

I actually just watched the video, but, I didn't hear the "We all know that survivors..." quote, so you'll have to give me the time stamp for that. At any rate, he doesn't get into game balance in the video because it's not relevant to the topic at hand.

The video is entirely about how subjective "wins" are in Dead By Daylight. If anything, accepting that win conditions fundamentally aren't well-defined just makes arguing that one side is overpowered even harder to justify. Someone could call survivors OP because their win condition is 12 hooks and it's hard to 12-hook everyone, for example, but will that convince someone who cares first and foremost about raw kills/escapes, pips, BP gain, rift progress, etc.? Certainly not.

Edit: I've been watching more from these streamers - they seem to say that the absolute best survivor squads are OP based on tournaments as evidence, but also that those squads are extremely rare in public matches. Tournaments are not reflect the experience in a public match, though, even at the highest skills. Win conditions are different, matchups are determined by MMR in the public matches while tournaments use other methods, tournaments ban loadout items, maps, play styles, etc. In order to truly determine balance at the highest skill levels we need a mature MMR and lots of data from those highest-skill matches.

Edit 2: This comment by zarr may be interesting to you:

So we agree that both tournament player & streamer are above the average player, good.

We agree that most if not all tournament have restriction, good. Those restriction mostly affect survivor, killer player mostly used the strongest killer and still struggle to win.

Survivor streamer (heck even lot of killer streamer when playing survivor) who often play alone, mind you, often bully the killer in their game, make them lose lot of time. Killer streamer will sweat even vs none swf who are very good at the game, especially if the killer use a mid to low tier killer but it does happen vs top tier killer.

Thing is the ranking system & match making that is based on it is so horrible that you don't often find 4 good survivor in the same game. You often have 1-2 good survivor and 2-3 decent one that are moderately to well under the killer's skill which balance things out for the match. The killer will still lose more than 1/4 of his time of the pretty good survivor, probably more than 30s each chase which is more than what survivor need to do gen and have 2-3 escape.

I've got 6k hours in this game. I likely know far more how it feels than you do. I'm just capable of considering that it's just a game.

PGTW is fine imo. The only time I've gotten mad at it was when a clown was tunneling a jake and we were pounding the gens and trying to save the jake. He was caught and killed, while the 3 of us were on the last gen. The ace (i think) got off first when the killer was coming and the tapp and I decided to commit. At like 99%, the tapp got off and got a skill check. We both got off and the killer popped it and that literally destroyed the game for us. Still a fun match but damn.

It's hard to use, which is annoying because it's a pretty strong perk but when you're put in a position where you can't use it, like being in a chase or the generator is too far away making the time investment pointless then it can be pretty pointless to have.

It's why Ruin will always be the superior perk. Better regression and it does it automatically, rewarding killers for chasing and applying pressure. Pop, I find really only is as devastating in a 3 generator or something.

Regression would be very strong if survivors didn't stop it, which would often be the case if they couldn't tap gens. This would be a massive balance change I don't see a need to buff killers in the way. Speaking of zero effort or thought, it's really not a big deal to just use your head before kicking a gen. If you can't tap gens kicking them becomes just as braindead; who cares if survivors are in the area, kick gen = profit.

This does have SWF vs solo impacts. In a world where gen tapping is impossible, killers are much more likely to kick gens. If killers are kicking gens more frequently, SWF's knowledge of which gens are regressing becomes more important. If killers are kicking gens less frequently, that knowledge is less important.