First year down, 1200 hours... Thoughts

Gonna make this quick.

TLDR: This game is hostile to new players. Slugging and Tunneling are in desperate need of being addressed, in addition to the "Hatch" mechanic and end trial interactions.

1. I'm down to my last two killers to get to P3 for meta builds, all survivors are done. This has taken a year to accomplish with the pathetic drip drip drip of BP that's been given out. It's demoralizing and I still can't believe I kept up the tenacity to accomplish it.
2. New players are brought in by their friends. I'm not sure how the MMR works for groups, but it needs to assume the lowest MMR for matching. I've heard, experienced, and watched videos/streams of a lot of new players being brought in by veteran friends being thrown right into the pits of hell due to skipping over the lower tiers of the MMR system. Those new players, by my observations and what others have said, frequently uninstall.
3. Perk bloat, DBD suffers from a similar issue that TCG/CCGs do at the end of a cycle. Just far too many perks creating some combinations that in a perfect situation equate to an "I Win" button. Both killer and survivor perks have this issue.
4. The hatch, this is one of the roots of toxic play. Like almost every problem in the game can be funneled to this. Last two matches take 3-4 times as much time to finish as the first part of the trial, encouraging griefing and extremely toxic play by both survivors and killers.
5. Both killers and survivors need an additional win condition. Badly. It's obvious that the game play loop only works for so long until it doesn't. And right now with the proliferation of slugging, especially during the event, without another way to "win" the game.
6. Both slugging and tunnelling are significant problems in the game and need to be addressed. This is both for killers and survivors.

• For survivors, those actions are the most toxic, boring, and brain dead methods of play; waiting minutes on end staring at a computer screen or being blitzed out of a trial in 2 minutes. There is no fun or engaging game play when it ends before it begins, or worse, you stare at a screen waiting for the killer player to actually play the game.
• For killers, it rewards the easiest and least skilled actions the game has to offer, removing the need to improve or experiment with perk combinations, creating a stale and repeat meta and game play loop that has no variety or true strategy. It's robotic game play that could be replaced by a bot, and doesn't encourage or reward creativity or exciting interactions within the game. I've found from my experience, that playing killer actively discourages you from thinking deeper about the game and outside of the box, and rewards the most brain dead methods of game play.

There's a handful of "in the weeds" things that would help if they were addressed as well, but those are individual perk/power issues that are already in discussion by the community.