Worse with a medkit, better without. Even if I give you Botany, when you said “gutted all the other healing perks” you literally only meant Botany and SC? That was it? That wasn’t even a minuscule fraction of the healing perks in the game. So they did not gut all the other healing perks.

Honestly adding the perk Shattered Hope was a mistake - unless they decided to give killer a 5th perk slot that had to be either a totem or a totem related perk.

For a while killers would just run Shattered Hope in the slot until nobody ran boons. Then they would run a hex perk. Then the cycle would repeat: killers would ran Shattered Hope and nobody would use Boons.

I recall everyone saying that a perk would be a terrible fix when CoH initially came out.