Why are people complaining and suggesting things to solve the symptoms

That is true some of the games problems that are trying to be solved are on dynamic problems that the game itself has created. Gen speeds can be affected too much by both sides perks leading to it heavily swinging towards whichever side has more so rather than remove most interactions if not all to keep a healthy medium they move the baseline a bit more towards one side neuters their side a bit and calls it a day.

The problem is people don't want their swing heavy perks to be changed or removed to be more balanced and more middling because they like their fun perks and would rather the symptoms be treated rather than the problems be solved because they like how much their perks swing things in their favor when the other side doesn't bring the same amount

And thats just on perks having maps all generate mostly random no matter what killer you pick is just bad design and a bad way to use it

As for lightbringer emblem, you gain 1/3rd points/percentage for other players doing gens and 5 points per gen completed, which means if all 5 gens get done and you dont touch a single gen and stay alive you will still get 190 points toward the emblem, which is gold.

If instead you do 1 full gen worth of progress and dont touch the other 4 gens that would get you 257 points out of 270 for Iridescent leaving you 13 points short which can be made up by doing about 1/4th of a second gen, opening an exit gate or cleansing 1 totem even a dull totem.

Solo queue by itself isn't the problem, it is matchmaking. When you play with a group of 4 SWF players with 2k+ mmr, you are playing with really good players. You could not be on coms and still destroy most killers you play against.

But when you play solo queue as a 2k+ MMR player, you can get matched with players as low as 1600 mmr. The "soft cap" for mmr in terms of matchmaking is 1600. For context, mmr typically starts around 1k after a few games.

There is a VAST difference between players at 2k mmr and 1600 mmr. If you were to put those 2 players head to head against each other, and use the elo calculation to calculate the probability of winning. Then that turns into this:

Player 1: 2000 mmr

Player 2: 1600 mmr

Result:

(Decimals are rounded so it adds up to 99.9%)

Player 1 wins: 88.1% chance

Player 2 wins: 4.2% chance

Draw: 7.6% chance

Now, granted that these are numbers based on elo calculation and probability and DBD isn't a 1v1 game where you can match 2 survivors against each other, but it still shows the difference in skill between these 2 players. That is a vast vast difference in play there. So when you are 2k mmr, and you get matched against a 2k mmr killer, but with 1600 mmr teammates. Suddenly that makes sense. And given that survivor play is based so much on the team. The more realistic outcome is that you are 2k mmr, playing with a bunch of teammates around 1600 and a killer around 1600. Now you understand why "solo queue" is so terrible.

I think at this point the game really needs a dynamic game director like Left4Dead or something. When things are somewhat a fun and balanced game like "chase, down, hook, 1st gen done, chase, down, hook, 2nd gen done, ..." then it does nothing, but if the survivors split up and after your first down 3 gens pop, then The Entity does some stuff like blocking gens or destroying palettes or blocking vaults (maybe even semi permanent) or whatever.

Same thing if the killer gets 3 hooks before one gen is done and the survivors are just running around like headless chickens The Entity gives them a repair buff or repairs destroyed palettes or closes a breakable wall or spawns a health kit suspiciously in the corner some survivor wanted to hide in.

Stompy games are seldom fun, its the somewhat. This is at least something that could be done with the current engine. Many suggested something else to be done with the survivors objective, like gathering parts accross the map or sabotaging the killers items or whatever, but the game is probably too far out in its life cycle to tackle anything like this, so we need to work with what we got.

Some people seem to despise catch up mechanics ("why should I be punished for playing well" or even more often "why should THEY be rewarded for playing bad?"), but its really what this game needs, a dynamic way to hinder or ease one sides gameplay during the trial and back again.

So if the killer performs well enough, the survivors get more things to help them? Brainless take and highly survivor sided, like the devs are. Survs dont need buffs