Are they really going to NERF DS AGAIN. and borrowed time?

Keep in mind, they hinted a while back that they were looking at Borrowed Time maybe being base kit, and they've also talked a few times about how they want to systematically find a way to steer killers away from face camping. So it's quite possible that part of this big perk pass will involve actually making one or both of those sort-of base kit abilities, maybe in a weakened state, and revamp or replace those two perks entirely.

Personally as a killer I don't find Decisive Strike all that bad since if the survivor touches any gen or does any healing the effect ends. Really if I trigger it after I down someone it means they did literally nothing the entire time between when they got rescued and getting downed again so that's fine, the perk gives them a helping hand at that point, no big deal. However that's just my opinion, it may be that the devs are seeing too high escape rates associated with it in which case they'll be inclined to tweak it a bit.

Borrowed Time is one of those perks I just assume all the survivors have when they're doing a rescue in my face. And again, honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. I almost always end up still getting a hook trade in those types of situations regardless, and even if I do hit someone protected by BT I at least get the consolation prize that they have to run away and Mend for a bit before doing anything useful. But like I said above, it's quite possible this one will end up just being a thing all survivors get automatically when rescued, maybe with a lower duration or something.

They also said a couple of times they weren't planning to add bots to the game because it was too difficult to program. What they might or might not do can change over time.

I mean if they make BT baseline in some form then it might be fine. No idea what they plan to do with DS though and I am a bit worried about that one.

I could have misunderstood what you said but I don't think nerfing meta perks to encourage using weaker perks is how it's supposed to go

A change I would welcome: make so DS deactivates when you perform the action to open an exit gate. Since it deactivates when doing gens and healing, I don't see why not deactivate on opening exit gates, since that's also an action torwards the survivors' objective, and the killer will want to stop it. Of course, there is also the fact that you HAVE to try to hook a survivor you just downed after they opened the exit gate, or otherwise they will escape no matter what. That's not really tunneling.

I've written it up with more detail in another recent post but if there was just a single structural change coming from this overhaul, it would be to eliminate bloodpoints from perks. It's just not a great design principle. The perk is run mostly because of something external to the individual game round and that's a pretty weak reason for it existing and not what perks are meant to do.

Bloodpoints currently are part of 7 Perks (most of which see little use) and hopefully after the refresh they will be part of 0 perks.

Hopefully they both get nerfed. Would be an amazing improvement to game balance.