Has anyone else noticed a rise in cheaters/exploiters?

The most recent cheat I've been seeing has been working like this;

The gate is opened and I'm trying to protect a late hook. There's an injured survivor that I want to chase out the gate to keep it to only 1-2 instead of 2-3 rescuers. The survivor does that thing where they wait by the boundary so they fall down and immediately exit the match after I hit them. So, I hit them, I see them go down, the icon even shifts to "escaped" and i head back in to protect the hook. Then, all of a sudden, the survivor I just punched out of the match is back in there for the rescue while I am trying to deal with the other survivor I thought was the only one left.

The first time I encountered this, I thought I was just misremembering things in the heat of the moment. But this exact scenario has happened about four times now in the last two weeks.