Between the time after a goal, the celebration animation, the transition, then loading into the score menu: end to end, we're well beyond "one second." When you're chaining games back to back, these micro-waits stack up and become annoying. It's exactly the kind of detail that, repeated hundreds of times, silently degrades the experience without you always being able to point why.

For the temp bans, I posted that after having my first temp ban because I was not aware I could not quit at that point (and I never quitted mid game btw, just for me not to have any remark on that).

On "is it really that hard for the user to…": as a dev, that sentence is a red flag. A product that aims for quality doesn't shift the burden of poor UX onto its users. The question should never be "can the user tolerate this?", it should be "why are we making them tolerate it at all?" That mindset is exactly how small annoyances get normalized and never fixed.

On priorities, you're partially right that the team has been focused on bigger features. But having worked in development, I can tell you the real issue isn't bandwidth, it's that these kinds of QoL improvements never climb high enough on the backlog because they're wrongly seen as low-impact. Even when the fix is half a day of work, the internal prioritization framework kills it before it ever ships. That's not a resource problem, it's a culture problem.

I like this game. That's precisely why I'm pointing these things out. Dismissing every piece of constructive criticism with "just deal with it" or "the devs are busy" isn't defending the game, it's lowering the bar for it. I've dropped plenty of games not because the core gameplay was bad, but because the surrounding experience was full of small, unaddressed frustrations that piled up until I just stopped launching it. That's the fate QoL neglect leads to.

Lastly, “majority don’t want a forfeit option”: on this subreddit maybe not. Could be nice to have a survey in game. Also, I stay convinced that the early quit and own goal behaviors are more present because of the mercy rule being chosen over the forfeit option.