This game is literally like smoking meth. It rots your brain and soul while getting you addicted.
The developers who balance this game? Smoking meth. (Realistically, forced to push through updates while prioritizing monetized content at the behest of their private shareholders).

If I had to be serious though, I would NOT recommend Dead By Daylight to anyone who can't get into the niche of the game within the first week. Try it when it's free or discounted, because while there is a lot of free content, the grind is obnoxious and most of the game-changing meta perks are locked behind the paid licensed characters with developers who will inevitably re-balance and then break multiple things since they're going to just keep releasing more content. I honestly wouldn't recommend anybody playing this game long-term and continuously having fun.
It cost upwards of $200 to purchase all the DLC, with around $80-100 of that being licensed characters that you cannot earn for free. It takes THOUSANDS of hours to grind, and longer just to learn all the 32 different killers, 200+ perks and the thousands of little gimicks which the game makes NO EFFORT to tell you!
Most stuff about this game have to be learned through content creators and wikipedia articles. Did you know that they just nerfed Plague without telling the playerbase in the last patch? I barely did. This game has a lot of love, but sometimes you question if the developers even touch the game???

AND THEY REMOVED 2v8 (this review will go positive when it comes back)

Me, though? Sunk Cost fallacy got me whipped, I am not stopping.
(I have been playing since 2019 on console)