If Killer is easier than it's ever been, why aren't people playing them?

I very much disagree. Perfection isn't required, but its defeatist that we never even try.

At the VERY least: bribe players with a post-match 25% BONUS BP multiplier for every SWF user.

This is one of those ideas that has literally no reasonable objections whatsoever.

The singular talking point against post-match BP bonuses ("but they'll know and remember swf players") is undercut by the tediousness of that, other means of telling early, ability to recognize them in games anyhow, unavoidable frequency of SWF, and most of all: net improvement, where the benefits overwhelmingly exceed whatever marginal impact might exist, if any. Why we don't have this at the very, very, very least then? Hell if I know.

Instead killers are simply expected to put up with over half of their games including anywhere from 50-100% of the other players exploiting 3rd party voice-coms. It's an indisputable steroids-level performance boost over how they'd play under the real game conditions, eliminating so much of the uncertainty and chaos that entails. Far worse than any imbalance though: it's how that extra edge, ability to gang-up, and atmosphere are so conducive of the bullying and toxicity that drives so many new/learning players away from playing killer... sometimes from the game entirely.

With even this marginal 50-100% BP compensation for the extra stress, players wouldn't be so prone to lobby dodging and avoiding times where SWF groups play the most. It'd likely somewhat reverse having to dip into the rank disparity for killer opponents when that greatly exacerbates all the issues. Right now the only reward for having to go up against players freely handed such a crazy advantage is that chance to MAYBE play some real Dead By Daylight matches... that game designed and balanced around isolated players deciding to work towards mutual interest in a weighing of self-preservation versus altruism. Yet you never know which games those will be, so you're liable to come out the gates swinging as hard as usually required & brutalize the team that could've put up a fun match instead. Hooray.

Anyhow... that's probably just the easiest, lowest effort, most unobjectionable solution around that would create any sort of impact--and for the tiny change, it'd be one massive impact too. It's the sort of change devs should be working on time-travel style right last second.

Truth is, there are any number of decent options to at least start bridging the SWF gap. I'll save myself from making this post ten times longer by leaving it at that and a self-reminder that it's not like anything will come from me outlining the sort of logical foundations for each option available here. The lack of solutions has never been the problem. It's a lack of motivation--effort too---but mostly the developers just don't really seem to care. They're perfectly content to perpetually heave buckets of water out of the rowboat instead of patching the leak.

Developers and many players alike seem to outright refuse even considering the smallest of QOL changes like a BP multiplier or mild gameplay considerations for the SWF issue when its so inarguably, well... an issue. There's this absolute conjecture just held as the word of God where ever simply allowing players any choice in the matter of who they go up again (even team-up with) instantly would destroy this game, turn lakes to fire, & rain ash from the skies. It's total BS in the first place, but hell--even if it things started heading that direction--it's easily reversed. Still such massive conjecture is grounds enough for most people as to why we can't even try anything at all. Personally, I'm pretty damn sure voice-coms is the most glaring issues in this whole game & resonate outward, cycling into new problems that heavily, heavily dampens the enjoyment of both killer and solo-survivor. But cest la vie.