Am I the only freak that thinks the game experience would be much better with 5-8 perk slots?

Look, you need to actually have a good reason for making fairly fundamental changes to the game, as well as be able to demonstrate that such changes will not have significantly negative consequences. Instead, you seem to just be adamantly declaring that it should happen and things will be fine, but when asked to defend your stance, you seem to repeatedly fall back on "Look how many perks we have now! Isn't it crazy that we still only have four slots?" And if someone says "...No.", what rebuttal do you have beyond "Yes."?

Thing is that it wasn't JUST X slots for Y perks.

It's X slots for Y perks at Z power. If you want to increase X without breaking the game then it's Z that you need to change with it and not Y. Or in otherwords what would justify adding perk slots is not MORE perks but WEAKER perks. Otherwise the perks end up overshadowing the minute to minute gameplay.

Any given perk build does not care about the total number of perks that exist since you aren't using those perks. All you care about is if there is the right X perks to make your build work. In general there is usually BARELY enough slots to make any given build work. This means you cannot go jack of all trades and be effective, you have to have a solid idea behind the build.

Decreasing the overall power behind any given perk lets you have more slots while maintaining the need for specialization. But increasing the perk slots and total perks eventually means you can do everything at once with very little drawback

wow my comment magically disappears? Kid you need to finish high school before telling people to complete or repeat high school. Your math argument does not hold water cuz when this game came out the 4 perk slots were never based on how many perks the game had so it doesn't matter how many we have now cuz the devs never looked at perks as "ok we have x amount of perks so we need y amount of perk slots" they looked at the ability to put perk builds together that weren't to op or weak and even with all the perks we have now there are a lot of perks that can be put into the same categories as other perks so basically you just gotta mix match until you find what works for you, you an either have 4 perks from different categories or 4 perks from the same type of category or do what most people do and experiment until you find a perk build that suits your playstyle. I am sorry that you feel you need more than 4 perks to be good at this game and succeed but just be patient try different builds until you find one that works for you and i think you will see that you don't really "NEED" more than 4 perk slots and the game was never intended for more than 4 perk slots and that is the reason your math argument doesn't hold water kiddo sorry.

i'm sure for hitler his plan for his "better world" was clear as water in his own mind now but doesn't make it a good idea again sorry. there is a reason you seem to be the only person in this thread that thinks we need more perk slots lol. It just seems like you "want" a stronger build to do better in the game that is really the vibe i am getting.

i make a complete build everytime i have played for 3 years and do just fine in the game without the need for extra perks, sure sometimes i wish i could run certain perks together but doing so would make me as a survivor way stronger than i need to be as a survivor, it shouldn't be an easy game and right now with a 4 perk build you can wreck a killer if you do it correctly, i honestly get a vibe that you just want to be a stronger survivor and you think you need xtra perks to beat killers more often. If it ain't broke don't fix it and the survival/death ratio is perfectly fine right now and as a survivor main i honestly think i survive a lot more than i should be but because of certain perk builds it gives me huge upperhands in certain scenarios and that is with 4 perks, if i had even more then i would be way to OP in those same scenarios even if killers had the same amount of perk builds. sorry man, IQ has nothing do with knowing that the perk system is perfectly fine, sorry you are frustrated and have a hard time deciding which perks you want but adding perk slots does not fix the game or help it in any way other than making your decision making easier. Again there is a reason that NOONE is really agreeing with you. So to answer the question from the title of this post: YES

Exactly! thank you, the devs knew what they were doing when they decided for 4 perk slots and no matter how many perks get added 4 slots is still more than enough to build up a set of perks that will help you through most situations

I don't see the issue, everyone has their own playstyle. I personally know the six I would take if it was possible as a survivor and none of the are DS or DH. Outside of that, the point of having that limit is to create a sense of challenge and make you actually think about what you are choosing.