Auto-fail Skillchecks and Potential Solutions

There are times where letting go of objectives is necessary due to situations that arise in game, but there is always a chance in letting go that you will get a skillcheck at the same moment that you let go which leads to an automatic fail, 10% regression on the objective and a loud noise for the killer. In most cases letting go of an objective isn't an issue as no skillcheck pops up, and in other cases you are fine to wait for a skillcheck to appear before letting go, but this isn't always possible for a number of reasons, there is always a chance that when you let go you lose progress and alert the killer due to no actual mistake on your part.

After some thinking I have come to the conclusion that there are two healthy ways we could fix this mechanic, so the skillchecks still need to be completed by the player, but they also will not be automatically failed (unless they are just impatient in my second solution), leading to healthier teamwork on the survivor's end, while not necessarily taking anything away from the killer. That being said, here are my solutions:

1. Normal skillchecks function in the same way as Overcharge and Merciless Storm. If you let go before the skillcheck it will not count as an automatic fail, Overcharge still lets you pass the skillcheck anyway, and Merciless Storm will block the generator, but it will not lose progress or begin to regress in any form (even though failing the skillcheck is supposed to explode the generator for more than a normal failure). This is my first solution as it does not lead to any form of game balance being affected.
2. Skill Check Frequency Adjustment. If we do not want to move the skillchecks towards working like Overcharge, I feel this to be another suitable solution that addresses the core of the issue. Sometimes when we are waiting for a skillcheck before letting go (example teammate is on a hook but you want to hit a skillcheck before rescuing them to avoid the possibility of the generator explosion) the skillcheck doesn't actually appear, sometimes we are sitting on generators for upwards of 40 seconds without a single skillcheck, and it leads to a sunk cost fallacy - you feel it will fail the moment you let go, even when it didn't blow up for the last several moments. I believe this can be fixed by putting a maximum amount of time interval between skillchecks appearing, something like 15 seconds. 15 seconds isn't so short of a time that it is too frequent, but it also isn't too long that waiting is doing more harm than good, it would also be a nice change for Autodidact, if everyone is aware that you are guaranteed a skill check in each heal. 15 seconds is more what I find to be a reasonable time frame, as long as we have some way of knowing that we will get a skillcheck after some time, that is better than never seeing one at all, or getting hit by them at the worst times. Skillchecks would still have random times to appear, one could show up in 5 seconds, one could show up in 12 seconds, but it will never keep you waiting for longer than 15 seconds, as an example.

TLDR; Waiting for skillcheck bad for gameplay, overcharge skillcheck is good, skillcheck appearing in guaranteed maximum intervals is also good. Thank you for reading!