Fixing Genrushing FOREVER (The SECRET to Balancing DBD)

With Fast Track having gained massive popularity, as well as many other genrushing builds so have come a wave of bad solutions that have come to fix these.

Some may believe Diminishing Returns is supposed to fix it the plethora of genrushing combos, like Fast Track, Hyperfocus & Stakeout, etc, only to notice that such combos aren't much addressed at all with these types of changes.
Now funnily enough, it isn't even an inherent gen-speed that is the problem. There is nothing wrong with gens flying fast for some shorter durations to help survivors have an attempt at a comeback.

But what really is the problem then with Genrushing? That is actually quite simple, and that is what we will solve in this post forever:

THE PROBLEM
The true problem with genrushing (and hell, even quick healing perks), is that they can push the minimal game-length to unhealthy degrees for the game.

Now that you understand the problem, you realize it isn't the fast gens that are the problem, but as they frequently result in the minimal game-length being pushed, they continue to cause issues all around.
So how do we fix it?

DBD NEEDS A MINIMAL GAMELENGTH MECHANIC
The responsibility of a minimal gamelength mechanic is to ensure that no normally game accelerating mechanics (like genrushing perks) are actually able to push the minimal gamelength further down, so that such perks only merely contribute to faster bursts of speed for comebacks among other things.

But how on earth would we achieve that? Now of course, you could create a really complex system that somehow tried to counteract all gen-speeding perks, or something that blocked gens if they were finished too early, but that would not only be more difficult, it would also not be elegant.

So instead, how can we implement a minimal gamelength mechanic in a healthy way that is both easy and elegant to implement? Meet my first attempt, utilizing an otherwise easily forgotten stage of the game:

THE NEW EXIT GATES
The exit gates, an otherwise forgotten and brushed over stage of the game, will be the key solution to solving Gen-Rushing forever. How it works:

Exit gates take 20 seconds to open, but at the start of the game, the speed at which survivors open the exit gates is drastically reduced. This reduction is called the Entity's Grasp, and the strength of it reduces linearly per in-game second based on in-game time. Dropping to having no effect at around 7-9 minutes.

x-axis: How many seconds into the match. 300 being 5 minutes. 7 minutes being 420 seconds, etc.
y-axis: How many seconds it takes to open the exit gates

As you can see, if a match theoretically would take 0 seconds to power all the generators, it would still take 260 seconds to open the exit gates. However while opening that exit gate, the time it takes to open that exit gate also changes, so in reality it takes less than that. But let's look at a more realistic match time of absolute genrushing:

4 minutes. Aka 240 seconds. We see that with a 240 seconds match, it would take 116 seconds to open the exit gate, which over that duration would drop to around 46.4 seconds, meaning it would take slightly over 81.2 seconds to open that exit gate in total minimally.

While the Entity's Grasp is still active (Aka the first 8 minutes of the match), exit gates slowly decay in progress. Closing the hatch instantly disables all the effects of Entity's Grasp.

WHY THIS WORKS
The reason why this works so well is because, the harder the survivors Genrush, the stronger the Entity's Grasp will be to counteract the game from falling down to problematically low gametimes, yet at the same time always keeps it beneficial to complete gens earlier than later, as even with the longer Gate time, it'll still be worth it to complete gens as soon as possible.

This minimal gamelength mechanic is also one of THE HEALTHIEST balance changes from the perspective of lower-vs higher elo, as this entire mechanic won't really be relevant much at lower elos where survivors struggle, as they aren't quite efficient enough to complete generators fast enough to meaningfully get held back by the effect, where as great survivors who are significantly more gen efficient will be more likely to bump into the effect, allowing weaker killers a better chance of winning when being efficiently gen-rushed, and making it easier to balance S tier killers as weaker killers will now be able to stand a better chance

You can watch back competitive gameplay and high level game-times to see how the gate mechanic would influence the matches.
When doing so, keep in mind you're measuring from the start of the game to the powering of the last gen, not to the end of the match, as the extra gate-time would extend the match.
In this tournament, where there were no rules forbidding people from running Fast Track 4 times, you'll see matches that take as little as 5 minutes, ranging between that and around 10 minutes total

With this simple gate-mechanic, we can meaningfully hinder gen-rushing in the healthiest way possible, through implementing this elegant game-mechanic that emphasizes a cool phase of the game that's otherwise predominantly forgotten, due to its short length; the minimal game-length mechanic that DBD has always needed ❤️