it seems super deliberate
10 minutes is short enough to seem like it's possible but long enough realistically for someone to join (especially at very high playercounts) and hit the button to ruin everything for everyone else, and blocklanders are naturally inclined to be the biggest stuffbirds they possibly can be and to ruin everything that others find joy and goodwill in
tbp's probably got like a whiteboard and notebook of the fine calculus and geometry and trajectorial equations n stuff somewhere