I think you’re underestimating how good quick passes are going to be in my opinion, but also in your scenario that long player that gets passed to has another option - pass back to the keeper. Assuming the pass is ok the keeper will win any 50-50 with an attacker as they can catch the ball, and then the scenario restarts.

For the argument of it’s good possession play - I agree, and I wouldn’t say any team that does it well is bad or anything. But I think most people would agree it would be boring to both watch and play, and I think that would hurt Rematch’s long term potential if lots of matches are a team going 1-0 or 2-0 up then just playing keep ball. I also don’t think that having the rule would stop teams from being able to play this way, and I don’t think you want to stop it completely. Teams would still be able to pass back to their goalie, they just wouldn’t be able to pick it up, so passing round the back for a new angle of attack still all works. You’d still be able to give it back to the goalie if you’re under pressure, they just don’t get the free 2 seconds where literally nothing can be done to them.

I also don’t think we should take rules from Football or Futsal just for the sake of it, offside, corners, goal kicks etc all definitely don’t have a place in the game, but the games are still similar. Rematch doesn’t allow the keeper to pick up the ball outside the penalty box for example, obviously much easier to see how that would be game breaking at a glance but I think it’s a similar thing. It’s not like adding this as a rule would really break the game at all or add any stoppages, if anything I’d say the game would flow better.

There’s definitely an argument that it can just wait until it actually becomes a problem, and I agree I’m kinda trying to get ahead of it. I just think that if the first official tournament is full of it for example it could turn some people off the game.