What should Shattered Hope's secondary effect be?

Yeah, but as you said, you can actually see the items survivors are bringing so I doubt anyone would bring these two perks without any item lobby. You wouldn't have that knowledge with Shattered Hope.

It doesn’t need one. You’re taking that chance by bringing it.

There are a plethora of survivor perks that depend on the killer’s behavior, or can be negated by the killer not doing or bringing something - heck, even the occasional meta perk like DS can be completely negated.

it’s completely valid and ok for killers to have some perks like this also.

Sure, you can have a perk that only works if your opponents bring something you can't tell in advance, but don't expect anyone to use it after the first week. Because, like... when's the last time you saw someone bring Distortion? It's not a bad effect, but it's hella unreliable and won't even work against all of the killer info perks. Smash Hit isn't a bad idea, but it banks on the killer being an M1 killer and not respecting pallets, so it's utterly not worth it. Calm Spirit? Great against Doctor or Infectious Fright, but your odds of facing those aren't nearly high enough to justify the perk choice. The meta trio of DS/BT/UB is so prominent because tunneling/camping/slugging is so common - and it'd be even more common if not for the meta. Remember the immediate uptick in tunneling when DS was nerfed? The point is that it's not just a favorable gamble, it's a deterrent (which in and of itself only works because it's meta.) I'm not saying I'm happy with the state of things, mind. I think it sucks that survivors have to bring perks in order to protect themselves from things killers can always do to force them out of the game early. But there's a reason those three perks are used and something like Repressed Alliance isn't.

I feel it's really important to note that Shattered Hope isn't anything groundbreaking against most matches with boons. What it does is protect against those really inconvenient totem spots like Ironworks catwalks or Temple basement, and it also can break up a 3-gen stalemate in the killer's favor. In a bog-standard match with Circle of Healing, the totem's going to get broken once or twice and relocated somewhere else. It might slow down the booner if they don't know where other totems are, but by no means is it stopping boons from being present in the match. Going around hunting for boons instead of survivors is still throwing the game. This perk is not a hard counter the way UB counters slugging or BT counters camping (DS, I believe could use some work as a true anti-tunneling perk), so I really don't think it's worth the risk of bringing when there's a fair chance it has no potential for use at all.

I feel like Lightborn is a fair comparison to make here. Lightborn is a perk that does nothing if the survivors don't have flashlights, firecrackers, or flashbangs - but I can see two out of these three things in the lobby and the first one is by far the most common (not to mention I just don't care about flashbangs period, too easy to dodge.) I don't care if I see one or two flashlights in the lobby, and I can handle that on my own, but three makes me leery and four makes me grab for Lightborn. I don't care if there's a Circle of Healing in the survivors' lineup, but if there's boons and a map offering, that's when Shattered Hope would be worth it. But I can't know that the same way I can know about Lightborn, and the perk really will not do enough in most matches for me to ever spend the perk slot on it. It'd be like bringing Mad Grit every game in case I face a bodyblocker squad. I can't afford to do that. Nobody does that. And if flashlights were invisible in the lobby, nobody would ever bring Lightborn, because why would you bring a perk that's going to give you value once every fifteen games when you can bring a perk that's going to give you value every game?

Meanwhile, you can look at a perk like Soul Guard, which isn't popular but I do see it used more than any of the survivor perks I listed earlier. You only get its full value if the killer's running a hex, which isn't something you can predict, but it has a secondary effect that always applies and that gives it a place in some builds.

Should also allow you to break dull totems.

That's all fine and dandy until you set up 5 stacks of Pentimento in the first minute of the game. Considering survivors don't know where the bones are yet, there's a real chance the killer gets it off.

If builds like that were meta, you'd see Ruin/Undying/Thrill/Devour every game. The build you just listed will only make survivors cleanse two totems. That's very little Pentimento value, and survivors aren't going to mess with totems once they understand they'll just give you more stacks of Pentimento - so you can either wait in hopes that they'll boon or cleanse random bones, allowing early gens to be done without the 30% slowdown, or you pull it out early and that's it for your Pentimento value. Pentimento totems tend to get cleansed quickly because at least one survivor already knows where they are. Trust me, I've run Pentimento-non-Plaything hex builds before and they're very lackluster. Plus hex builds are inherently unreliable and don't leave room for staple perks - where's the info perk in a build like that? Where's the chase perk?

Plaything/Pentimento is still way better than what you're proposing. You're correct that nobody will run Shattered Hope without that kind of hex-and-Pentimento backup, but the number of people who are going to take it along isn't nearly as high as you're predicting. It's a bad perk and it's not going to break into the meta anytime soon.

It should work on dull totems (with the same aura-reading radius) as well as boons. Problem solved.

If it did that then its pentimento synergy would have to be removed.

"That's all fine and dandy until you set up 5 stacks of Pentimento in the first minute of the game. Considering survivors don't know where the bones are yet, there's a real chance the killer gets it off."

The killer doesn't know where they're at either. You're gonna lose 4 gens while you waste time walking around trying to light them all. Not to mention the survivors literally seeing you doing this entire thing to walk over and break one as soon as you leave.

It should give killer same ability to see the totem the way new Noed will for survs

a progressive increasing perimeter with totem aura shown, if its good for noed its good for boons which are in almost every match, noed, hardly ever