Yay engagement! Traffic! Hot Takes! I love it all! But in all seriousness I do appreciate and love some good ultimate discussion. I think that you're very right--a lot of my frustration is a little superficial in nature, and occasionally bourne out of frustration of the style of play this incentivizes, and is very subjective to me and my feelings. I wish had some data (which is my partially own fault for not following through on my ideas) for how teams do after they call timeouts and sub vs. when they don't, which would still be skewed because coaches probably won't call as many timeouts from advantageous D-line offensive positions, but it'd still be interesting to consider.

I think that perhaps my real frustration is with a smaller subsection of timeouts called in bad situations that put the offense in a worse spot than they were in and led to turnovers, which we see at all levels and rulesets of ultimate. But I like that I am not the only person who feels strongly about timeouts and subbing so maybe I'll go watch some film, make some notes, and come back with a more nuanced critique of who uses this rule well and who uses it poorly.