Round table

Personally, I see two drawbacks to the TE system with a timer:
- battles with ballista, for example a couple of snakes and a ballista against 100 zombies
- if there's a real-life issue, you have to "pause" in the battle

Battles with ballista. You just need to set a normal limit, for example 4000+400, and then there will be enough time.
The real-life issue. When playing SoD, you have to enter the battle and then deal with real-life problems. When playing TE-light/TE/VT, you can immediately take care of matters without having to enter the battle, and my opponent has less desire to ask what I'm spending time on, because I am doing it on my own time. When I need to step away for a long time, I tell my opponent: "I need to step away, let my time run."

Although I agree with Captain's position that we used to play for 4 minutes without the lighter, and now with the lighter we can't even manage 6 minutes.
This is happening not only on HP and HeroesWorld, but also on the bay the limit keeps increasing:
1800+300, 3000+400, 4000+400, 4000+500 — who will bid higher?
I understand that in 30 minutes you can do much better than in 6, but in life we have more than just playing Heroes.