Totems as objectives

I see a lot of people insisting that totems are objectives, however I fail to see how they are objectives as almost nowhere in game or in real life is it stated that totems are objectives. My suggestion would be to include them as a part of the tutorial and have a counter for them like the only other survivor objective which is generators. This would also work towards making Solomon survivor as powerful as swf, which in turn can be used as a baseline to buff killers accordingly. What do you think?