Killers seem to force abadons, maybe to have easy games vs bots?

Hi, I’m part of a group of people that regularly play against each other on both sides in customs doing exactly this; and it is not only a valid strategy, but a fun one when everyone is on the same page.

Tunneling sucks in solo queue because your teammates are potatoes that can’t hold chase, so altruistic counterplay, strategic stealth, and other forms of macro gameplay mean nothing. If every game I played was versus a tunneling killer but everyone on my team knew what to do, I would have zero issues with it.

I’m sorry you don’t find it fun but that doesn’t mean no one here can recognize it as a strategy.

Exactly this!

When everyone in a match is of a similar skill level and mindset, then tunneling is VERY counterable. The only reason so many people think it is insurmountable is because this game does a very bad job of matchmaking people of appropriate skill levels and attitudes together, and so you get solo queue teammates who don't have any idea what they're doing, or just give up at the slightest inconvenience. It follows that the logical solution is to address matchmaking, so people are matched with suitable teammates and opponents, instead of trying to twist the fundamentals to handhold weaker players.

Identifying and exploiting your opponents' weak spots is the key to basically ANY PvP game. If you leave your pieces hanging in Chess and they get taken, no one would argue that your opponent was playing unfair/mean/its not a valid strategy/rushed their objectives. It's simply how the game is played, and DbD operates on much the same principle. So often when Survivors in my matches complain of "tunneling", they actually just left their pieces hanging. Healing under hook, taking aggro while on death hook, body blocking with their post-unhook protections etc. Learning how to not make yourself a target for tunneling, is an important skill for Survivors. And protecting your teammates in the event they DO get targetted is an equally valuable skill, but no one seems interested in learning it.

Too many people seem to have forgotten that Survivor is a team role, and are only interested in their own Survival.

I don't see what matchmaking has to do with tunneling.  Killers will tunnel at low/mid MMR because it's easy, and then they'll tunnel at high MMR because they claim it's "necessary."

And even when tunneling is counterable, that doesn't make it fun to go against.  It's boring as all get-out.  You'll either get eliminated quickly, or you'll be sitting on a gen yawning with boredom.  And the one being tunneled is 99% certain to die, even if they buy enough time for the teammates to do the gens and escape.