The Skull Merchant's lore and all previous iterations were focused on her power granting her information and exposing/breaking survivors in order to hunt them efficiently.

Making her into another ranged killer/Twins hybrid is not the way to go about it. At least in my opinion as a Skull Merchant main.
Not once in her lore are her Drones used as a weapon to hit the victims, rather they help her by hindering and locating her victims. And I think t's very against her style to just slam a drone into a survivor the way a Huntress chucks hatches or Victor Pounces.
I think "Drone Propulsion" should be replaced with a "Hunting Scan" where the Drone can be controlled and perform a special scan on the Survivor. Doing so causes the Survivor to become Exposed (They'd have the little Claw Trap attached to them) and the Skull Merchant is given their location via her Radar while the Drone used to scan the survivor locks onto the Claw Trap and follows the survivor like an angry hornet, maybe creating a disturbing red glow over them Like in the trailers.
This would incentivize her to go an manually hunt them down, because the Survivor wasn't injured, rather they are exposed, so she needs to apply that additional pressure. This also allows her Drones to share the theme of being her "Eyes" instead of just being another projectile attack.

I love this character, I have played every iteration of her, and will continue to play her. But I just want her playstyle to feel immersive to her actual design and lore.
I'm so thankful that she is being given a proper look at, but I just hope the Developers take into account that out of the roster, they already have a lot of that fulfill that "Projectile launch" type.

When it comes down to a rework, it should carry that original spirit to what the character is meant to be.
I love the idea of controlling Drones directly, but there actual attack version is just too much like so many other characters (Knight, Twins, Nightmare, Huntress, Trickster, Unknown, Lich, Dark Lord) I genuinely think this character should be a Trap Type with intel and expose as her main tools of torment.

I also really think the removal of her claw traps, locked on, and the removal of her scan bonuses are a huge mistake; this character always has had a theme of pushing survivors to stay on alert and remove the danger before proceeding. The changes give survivors a powerful Aura reveal while knocking a portion of her power away. It also removes the mounting dangers of being scanned and replaces it with what was eloquently described as "Drone go brrr". This is disasterous, as it removes her playstyle as a setup Trap type character completely and makes her more akin to another Twins type killer, with a projectile/dash attack. We already have 16 other killers that fit that category.

I don't want my main to be changed so severely. I already have acclimated to her current state, and to know nearly ALL of her mechanics are being stripped away with this design concept is just distressing and depressing. I loved the Undetectable stealth moments allowing a good old fashioned drop on survivors, the scan lines claw trapping a survivor at just the right moment because I rotated at a window ahead of time in anticipation, and of seeing lock on slowly gaining steam.

Please, these changes are an utter scrubbing of the character's motives, identity, and playstyle; the new design is not for us Skull Merchant Mains, it is for survivors that will never forgive a long-reformed killer and pushes a playstyle that already exists in many forms in this game.

Also I included a picture for no reason other than that I drew that when her trailer first dropped is all.