Shedding some light on why generators are flying

This may have already been discussed in some ways here, but I just wanted to share my thoughts on this topic. I have seen people pointing out the healing nerfs may have something to do with it, but I am going to elaborate on that further.

I think the biggest reason gens are going so much faster now is the CoH nerf. In SoloQ, you would typically see at least one person running this, if not sometimes 2 or 3. And more often than not, these players are prioritizing searching for a totem and booning it ASAP. That's at least one person using what could be a full generator's completion time to boon. Not to mention having to keep re-booning once snuffed, which some players would do predictably and waste a lot of time or get themselves hooked trying.

Another part of this is that less teamwork was required to heal. In most ways removing this attribute to promote team play was a good thing; no more interference with hit and run and worrying about having to constantly snuff boons way out of your radius to stop gens. But as far as generators getting completed is concerned, you now have 1.) People being forced to find teammates to heal, but now they are teaming on gens more, making Prove Thyself even better, and 2.) Not having players go completely out of their way to run to the boon and self-heal. Considering getting healed by a fellow Survivor was comparable to the boon self-heal (I forget the numbers) I think people are actually saving time without CoH and can spend more time on gens. As Survivor, I was never a fan of CoH for this very reason, sometimes it was placed well and saved time, but also could waste a lot of time on gens too. Also, not having to run CoH frees up a perk slot for whatever they want, like Resilience or Prove.

The next part is the Medkit nerfs. No CoH does promote more Medkit use, but people can obviously opt to run their best toolboxes as well. And...THEY ARE. I will admit, as Survivor lately and understanding the meta and what people are going after as far as wanting nerfs, I've been bringing BNPs as much as I can. I've typically gone after them if I see them on my Bloodweb, and I KNOW they are going to be nerfed in the near future. Wanting the most of my Bloodpoint use, I am bringing them more lately, especially with Medkits being less effective (they are still good however). I don't know if others have the same idea, but even in SoloQ it appears to be so.

Now, we take a look at how this affects SWFs. The aforementioned need to team up for healing, less time wasted needing to boon, and more toolboxes? These healing nerfs have actually made them so much more proficient at wanting to pump out gens. Now they are 99'ing heals for Resilience (a perk you have no idea in SoloQ if your teammate is running or not) splitting up who brings Prove Thyself to team gens, and possibly a full set of BNPs or at the least strong toolboxes and maybe one flashlight. They can coordinate so much better to just pump out gens.

I know a lot of this is probably obvious, but I just wanted to sum up my thoughts on the matter since it's such a hot topic ATM. It was a mistake to simply nerf healing and not take a look at generator speeds in the process. It was easy to overlook since nerfing things seems like a good way to help (and in a lot of ways it still does), but the culmination forced Survivors to adjust and simply doing gens faster against all the tunneling and camping with no boons has resulted in the gens now flying. Thanks for reading.