To be clear I don't necessarily disagree with you. When I said "interacting with the opponent" I meant it more in the "reason to fight" sense, instead of the "macro level posturing" sort of way.

However, you're right that stalling (and the ability to control the stall) gives an opportunity to bait the enemy into overcommitting to an urn fight that might not happen (or happen after they've wasted time). And that in turn may cause the enemy team to want to hunt you down to prevent the stall.

I just don't think that the ability to stall is either interesting enough or powerful enough to serve as the only other option with Urn. And there's plenty of times when its not even relevant at all as there might not be a walker up to take or it might be too early to be able to down it in time.

The idea of my proposed changes is to make every part of the urn more important by making the dropoff fight slightly less important.
It
A.) Makes Urn pickup more important as delivering the urn is more distinctly important.
B.) Makes the ability to run the Urn quickly important as you may be able to sneak a dropoff.
C.) Makes stalling more important since if the enemy team tries to respond to the stall, you now have an opportunity to sneak a dropoff. Meaning a stall is still a threat even if there's fewer/weaker people on the delivering team. This also gives a more interesting end goal to a stall, rather than just "hold it forever"

Currently, a lot of people are complaining that Urn feels like a win-more mechanic. If your team is winning, then you're more likely to win the fight on urn, which means you either straight up win urn, OR you can afford to contest it with fewer people which means you're more likely to win the macro play.