Every time we try to make killer viable, attacks and nerfs ensue

No, don't give ground. You have a great understanding of killer.

Spirit's nerfs were WAY out of line. She needed her stand-still mindgame taken away because it was stupid, and that's about it. Make her scream when she goes into her phase or something, and that's all we'd need to know that she's not just standing still. She still had good, healthy gameplay otherwise, to play as and to vs, because it promoted mindgames using sound, which survivors are usually in advantage of anyway. You could do so much to confuse her even while injured. Double back, fast vault x2, slow vault, slow vault then fast vault, crouch, crouch then double back, start walking, fake the double back, double fake the double back, use Iron Will, use Diversion, use Quick and Quiet. But nobody wanted to use all the tools they had at their disposal, and instead complained til Spirit got nerfed to death. Those who say Spirit is still S tier/top 3 are kidding themselves.

People claimed* that Freddy was so OP before his nerf that he was S tier/top 3, and then he got nerfed because of that, because he "took no skill". I found the whole ordeal hilarious. Still do. He took loads of skill, being an M1 killer and all. He had slowdown similar to Clown's which he could preset at loops for later, which caused him to catch survivors off guard when they'd run to those supposedly strong loops. He could also use them for info if they were triggered from afar. He could also use them on the fly, and still can, by setting up a snare at each side of the loop, wait for the survivor to step in one, double back so they'd have to go through the other as well, and that would barely give him the hit before they got to the pallet. He could teleport to gens, or fake that he was teleporting, which caused the survivors to respect him or give a free hit when he actually did tp. It was mostly used to stop gens from getting done, by teleporting their and using Pop or letting Ruin do its regression. Survivors being Oblivious while in dream was/is nice. His slowdown add-ons were also nice, even though they were a mere 5% slowdown.

Now, Freddy is a complete joke, and he wasn't that strong to begin with. His snares were reduced to 5, which pretty much stops him from being able to set them preemptively at key loops, because placing more than that limit would undo the first one placed. That forces him to only use them on the fly, which a survivor could and can still counter by just running away from the loop when he starts doing that, or just drop the pallet early. Dream pallets were also reduced in number, which was a stupid decision that Almo clearly had input on as he said, and I quote: "Freddy's pallets are stronger than his snares" which shows he had no understanding of Freddy. Freddy's clocks being buffed is huge for survivors, because his snares/pallets/Oblivious don't even do anything to them unless they're asleep, and the yellow meter that the new clocks put on survivors causes them to reach sleep later, and become immune to getting put in the dream world even when Freddy hits them. His slowdown add-ons and most of his other good add-ons are also gone, now replaced with the most useless crap imaginable, like "survivors' footsteps are louder while in dream" and "survivors' gen repairs are louder when in dream". Those are the most insulting change of them all. And this was all unjustified. Freddy was not this unbeatable force that survivors made him out to be. Did he slow down the game a lot? Possibly, with the right perks. Did survivors beat him anyway, in the same way they can beat Hag despite how drawn out the game may be? Absolutely. Pre-nerf Freddy may be the most overrated killer of all time, and he has pre-nerf Wraith and Clown as contenders.

Try to hear out these survivor mains arguments if you wish, but do not be fooled by them. They do not understand anything I've said above, even when they themselves have played those killers.

I reject this entirely. I don't believe that "If you just play good enough, you can beat any team using any killer." Some killers literally aren't strong enough. The gens are too fast for them. Why else do you see 2 killers only at high MMR?

My viable seems to be different from everyone else's viable for some reason. Viable means having the potential to beat any team. Only Nurse has that potential. If we aren't making killers strong enough to beat any team, even when the killer plays well, we're basically throwing our hands up in air when we play them and say, "Welp, looks like I'm just gonna have to lose this one." That's what it's like.

Playing like a jerk means playing efficient, something you're forced to do but that survivors claim is toxic. Real toxicity is things you don't have to do to win, like tbagging and flashlight clicking. People love defending those "strategies". I don't deserve to be sent "gg ez" or tbags because I had to camp in endgame while using Clown, as opposed to walking away and giving a free escape. It's literally all I could do at that point.

And easy wins on killer? Please. I haven't had an easy win on killer in forever. Using the strongest stuff is still a sweat fest against survivors who know what they're doing. When I lose in solo queue, those killers are the ones that have easy wins, because there's no reason for the mistakes my teammates make over and over, or the inefficiency.