This post attempting to force and coerce Hitech to concede the time limit via community preassure is a preaty good measurment of how seriously the OP and his supporters take this game as a source for their short term feel good fix. The attempt at adjusting the social dynamic of this game against the choice of the owner demonstrates a lack of long term consideration to the owners experience. This is not a group of people being laid back in response to the direction of this environment's out come in the face of past meldowns.
The owner has always done a very fair job of listening to input from the community that has made sense...at least in my experience here. Remember Bustr, the owner has changed the time frames on numerous occasions and from what comments I've seen, he doesn't appear to be someone that is forced or coerced to do a thing. If i were him and i read that, I wouldnt feel lke that was a compliment. Knowing that fact, as I'm quite certain you do, makes your commentary sound biased in self interest because I'm almost certain that you don't know the owner well enough to cite his personal and/or business choices or how he may have arrived at those decisions.
As its been noted already, several veterans would like the change made for the simple reason that it enables the possibility of numerically-stable gameplay. Your disagreement with that leaves me to believe your motivation isn't about the lack of affect it would have on generating even play, but enabling the continuation of un-impeded hoarding/base rolling.
If that is not the case, please state what your motivation actually is and I will gladly stand corrected...