Franklins Demise is countered extremely easy

How? You'd still have to actually hit them if they choose not to manually drop the item.

yeah um..... no

Using Franklin's to protect items (and get hits while doing so) is a mistake because it relies on survivors to make an even worse mistake. If you protect the item, the survivors can just run off and do gens for 90 seconds, or do gens for 70 seconds and grab it at the last moment. All this progress happens while the killer is wasting time protecting an item that doesn't inherently generate pressure. Franklin's is not a sufficient answer to the keys especially, because keys do not primarily have value except once at the end of the game. It's alright against medkits, because dropping that prevents a self heal, even if it's picked up later. It's also effective against flashlights because it disables the item for the second half of that chase and/or prevents flashlight saves.

But maps, toolboxes, and keys, which see periodic or single use of great value--as opposed to the continual value generated by medkits and flashlights--are not threatened by Franklin's Demise, and attempting to destroy them outright results in an unacceptable loss of generator pressure. Against an intelligent survivor Franklin's either prevents a future self-heal at best, does nothing, or even becomes a liability to the killer by encouraging them to defend a pointless area. Something needs to change, if not Franklin's. Personally, I think an Overwhelming Presence rework to take on some of these responsibilities would be nice.

That doesn't make Franklin's Demise good, it just means that those teams misplay because they become emotional about their items.

uh what

That sounds like you are running into bad Survivors. There's no reason to pick up items that Franklin's knocked out of your hand (other than the Key, which, again, has a hard counter to it) unless it is conveniently on your way to whatever gen/hook you are going toward.

I think it is an issue because it means Franklin's is useless against competent Survivors and pointless against the one item it might have some use against (the Key). Franklin's should not be so easily HARD countered by an an action that can be taken at the beginning of a match.

Better suggestion: When a survivor is hit it will force him to drop the item, dropped item will lose its charges overtime after all charges are consumed, the entity will consume the item.