Opponents turns lasting longer than intended
I am exhausted from simply trying to play the game and the amount of time the first turn takes, or I have to wait 8 minutes for my opponent to run out of time outs when they simply left the game. This happens so often.
You are adding explorer and alchemy modes that a fraction of your base will even entertain, when you could add a blitz mode heavily shortening turns.
By all means, keep the absurdly lengthy turns to preserve competitive integrity, but at platinum rank it I literally use 3 timeouts in 100 games on average. In most cases, this makes it not even considered a resource that needs to be utilized. I only look at it as more time that my opponent can afk for.
I'm forced to sit here and wait 3 minutes or more for someone to even decide they want to keep their hand or just to play 1 land!? In what world is this necessary? I spend most of my time in game waiting on my opponent when I would rather be playing the game. If there is blitz/speed chess, there is no reason my time can't also be valued as well.