I do not underastand balancing around 2K/2E

Two things:

Why do players care, at all, about an invisible ranking they cannot see and have no way of knowing if they have high/low of?

" the killer has to really sweat a lot to achieve the balanced 2K/2E". Killers have to sweat for basically anything depending on the level of skill of the survivors. 2k is easier than a 4k.

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I agree though that Survivor is chill. There's a reason I don't play Killer.

You see, once you reach the sweaty shores of the MMR system, you don't have the choice to sweat it to get a 4K or play it cool and walk away with a 2K,you have to sweat it to walk away with anything better then a humiliating defeat. If you just play yolo you are lucky if you get a singel hook, often you will be denied practically everything, with bodyblocking and sabotaging shenanigans each and every time. If you don't sweat it, you won't even get a casual hook, and the whole match is on edge. If you sweat it hard and get your 1-2K (NOY easy or chill), maybe even the occasional 3-4K if altruism killed the team in q spectacular blunder, then congratulations and you will stay at this level.

Or you could say "whatever", play yolo and suffer 2-4 games where you get nothing done and de-rank enough that you can have a series of normal games. But steadily you will climb again, until you are back at the top.

This is the reality that many killer mains face and lament, this feeling of getting punished by playing good, because you will then be paired with the smol group of well organized and oppressive survivor swf groups until you lost enough that you are eligible for more normal or solo-q matches.

Unser this light the words from that (I think October or November Dev Stream) sounds so cynical: "something something the skill bades Match Making will ensure that every game will be against someone of your own skill level, improving the quality of every single game. More fun for everyone."

I am writing a book again, here, and I am never sure if someone actually reads all of this ;) But whatever. Most killers don't want to stomp baby survivor groups, and there is nothing wrong with a tooth-and-nails-sweat-match every now and then, but sweat after sweat, all day every day just rapidly drains your killer instinct, and this is when you read it so often that killer mains question themselves "why even boot up the game and bother?" or use colorful descriptions like "I would rather drive toothpicks under my fingernails then play a game tonight".

I really think the best solution would be something like open free game and ranked matches with better monthly rewards if you feel like it.

I will explain my own experiences with the situation at hand, here we go:

a normal game would be like this: you start the match, roam around, finally stumble over a survivor, chase them a bit and after a while he escapes or you get a down. If you down the survivor you would approach, look around if there was a cheeky flashlight save waiting for you, then face a wall, pick the survivor up, walk over to the next hook, and then roam around to one of the gens, to pressure there, only starting hard proxi-camping or tunneling, once 3 gens are done and you got no kill by that time.

But now imagine that you cant even get that first hook, because an orchestrated commando move, where someone first crouch behind you to confuse and mess with you, then runs cirlces and clickety clicks, while another one sabotages the hook. By the time you reach the next hook, the survivor on your shoulder wriggeled free and a gen pops without you gotten anything out of it. Seconds later the hurt suvivors are up to top conditon, because of some CoH in a corner.

As a singular occurence this would be ok, but you are denied practically any measure of success, so if you dont step up the game, play ugly and be sweaty af you will end the game with 0-2 hooks, not 1-2K. You practically have to "Make your choice: live with 1-2 hooks for a couple of games till you derank enough OR play like a sweaty bastard and show 'em!". By playing sweaty you can win, can get yout 3-4K, but most of the time it will be a misserable experience and feel like you played the dbd worldcup finals. And like I said: occasional this would be ok, but if you got this game after game, all day every day, it just saps your will to kill.

So why do I come still back to play the game, even though I have a lot of sweaty and stressful matches? Because I love the game, love the core idea and gameplay and all the interesting killers with their powers (I rotate killers a lot and dont just play Nurse/Spirit/Blight), which makes this whole situation just that more tragic. This game could easily be such a gem, such a masterpiece, yet its held back, some might say sabotaged, by some design decisions, that apparently a lot of the community don't agree with.

And the internet being the internet, you don't have the level-headed, empathetic and somewhat measured folks in the majority or as the mouth pieces of their chosen faction, but you get the ugly, anonymous and toxic cesspool, that so often seems to dominate the narrative here.

So until some bold new moves are tried, I guess this game will burn out more killers then survivors, tilting the ratio into an unhealthy way, setting everyone at odds with each other. But many will still come back after a time, because the game is quite cool.