Why Nemesis & Pyramid Head are poorly designed killers

We all know that dreaded situation. That situation where you're being chased by either Nemesis or Pyramid Head, and you approach a vault. The only renewable resource in the game that can be used to make distance from the killer (excluding perks). And yet, they're meaningless against these two killers. I probably don't need to explain why. You vault, you get M2'd. You don't vault, you get M1'd. Pyramid head's ability to abuse this was nerfed about 10 months back with patch 4.3.0 when his cooldown after cancelling rites of judgement was increased/movement speed decreased, but he can still abuse it nonetheless, albeit slightly less effectively. Too slight to make any difference in the vast majority of cases.

Simply put, this type of gameplay is not fun. There is no prediction. There is no strategy. The only strategy is to avoid vaults at all costs, unless you have substantial difference from the killer. Which, due to the very nature of the game, (Killers being 10-15% faster than survivors), you won't maintain. The problem is especially prevalent when you consider the fact that vaults are one of the primary methods (and the only reusable one) used to create that distance in the first place.

Too frequently I see the argument that this is called "zoning" and to simply play around it. No, this isn't zoning. When I play huntress and I wind up a hatchet when a survivor is heading along the sides of one of the houses on Haddonfield where the fences are, causing them to run another direction that isn't the narrow pathway between the fence and the house where they would have no room to dodge my hatchet, that's zoning. When I play Deathslinger and I go to the outside of the shack window to shoot a survivor as they run into the shack, forcing them to go elsewhere unless they want to get shot and hit through the window, that's zoning. In both of these scenarios, I have effectively eliminated one of the survivor's options. When you're up against either Pyramid Head or nemesis at a vault, all of the survivor's options are eliminated. I genuinely struggle to think of a scenario in which the survivor can escape unscathed. The best case scenario that I can fathom is that the survivor fakes the vault, (since being stuck in the vaulting animation is just a guaranteed hit) then manages to somehow either make it back to the vault, effectively "faking the fake" (and somehow having enough time to line up for a fast vault) , or simply 360 the killer's M1. (Which we all know doesn't work against sentient killers)

I main killer and I can't help but feel like an absolute turd whenever I play either of these killers. (which is a shame considering nemesis is my absolute favorite killer) Every now and again I come across a survivor who has figured out the only way to fight against this. Drop every pallet. Way early. That might be the worst part about this. The only real way to combat it is to avoid vaults, and just use pallets. And you can't even use them efficiently, because it happens at pallets too. Just like vaulting, dropping pallets is an animation you get stuck in. And so long as you're within range of their M2, you're getting hit. No question about it. Exact same ordeal. Drop the pallet, you get M2'd. Don't drop the pallet, you get M1'd. So you can't even loop the pallet an extra time or two to maximize the use you get out of it. You've got to drop the pallet before the killer gets in M2 range. I don't even need to mention how fast this shreds through pallets and effectively screws over you and your entire time in the long run. (I say "long run", even though a competent game of DBD doesn't last long. It still lasts long enough to make dropping every single pallet in the map very quickly a problem.) I wish these killers brought more fair gameplay to the game, and not this lose-lose situation nonsense.