Was I dead to rights from the beginning?

Hi there. I'm a PS4 player, and (so far at least) a survivor main. I'd like to get The Spirit before I try out Killer just because I like her lore, but 9k shards is a lot. I haven't been playing long yet; I've got one survivor to 40, and my account level is 23. I won't bother mentioning my rank as I think at the point I'm at, it really means essentially nothing.

I just finished a game however, vs. The Hillbilly. I went in and as soon as I heard his chainsaw, I knew that he'd be pretty quick and I'd have to play carefully. I got hooked once early on, but then his focus seemed to drop from me, as he hooked another teammate twice, and downed them a third time. They disconnected before being picked up. The two remaining survivors were each sacrificed. The final one signaled that he was being camped, then procedeed to try and struggle out, and then let himself die. I was left the last one alive, and I noticed that the killer was spending a long time hanging around a single spot. I figured it was the hatch, so I decided to work on a generator on the opposite side of the map.

It was the final generator needed to power the exit gates thankfully, but as I went for a gate, I noticed something. The hatch, and both exit gates, had spawned in such a way that The Hillbilly could walk just a couple steps towards either gate, and see if I was opening it. He could also cover the hatch at the same time. I knew I wouldn't be able to get through either of the exit gates because of how they were placed, even if I had switched from one to the other until I eventually got one open. This killer was on top of his game and never stood still until I was near, and to be honest I got very close to the hatch without him noticing.

So, I went for it. I've never gone through the hatch with the killer nearby, unfortunately, and I was entirely unaware that you could be grabbed while going through it, but I didn't immediately try to jump into it. I figured he'd just hit me in the animation and it'd be interrupted. He knew the game we were playing, and since I'm working on Feng Min, I don't have any particularly strong perks. Lithe and Alert, both at level 1. I vaulted through a window near to the hatch while he was away from it, and with the speedboost from Lithe I ran straight to it, and jumped down. My head was the only thing showing when he grabbed me, and placed me on a hook right next to the hatch. Wouldn't have mattered if he didn't, as he also had Iron Grip.

Now, we come to the question. Could I have played that better, or was the RNG very heavily in favour of the killer that had already taken a massive advantage? I felt very cheated to have worked as hard as I did, and make surprisingly correct assumptions - my heart sure was pumping a ton of blood too - only to have a fleeting victory quite literally ripped from my grasp. I made only about 14k BP from that match, which for a level 7 character is fine, but.. I honestly felt like I played well to keep myself out of the killer's attention for a long enough time to work on generators until I was the last one alive, and I thought I played it -really- well to use the advantage of my perk to try and get out alive.

I've read around and heard that the game is currently massively in favour of the killer, and while I lose most of my games I usually attributed that to the fact that I'm much better at not getting into a chase than I am at escaping them, so I'd generally die because of my own lack of skill if I was discovered, which is fine. But after that I do genuinely feel like everything down to the RNG was in the killer's favour. Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'd be more than happy to hear about different ways I could've played the match!