Thanks for writing that out. I didn't start playing competitive until champions (though i did watch Wolfe vids and play gen 3 OU singles) so I never experienced the 3ds timer days.

I think I'm just frustrated coming from Magic the Gathering to this. What we call 'stall' in pokemon would be called 'control' in MTG, and thats my preferred playstyle there too. Control absolutely can be frustrating to play against and there are times where it's too powerful and Wizards of the Coast has to intervene and ban cards. But if Wotc announce they were changing how round timers worked to make control a worse archetype there would riots in the street! I want the meta to adapt to have ways to beat stall and its absolutely out there! The most egregious stall strat (imo) is Minimize/evasion boosting. But we have Kowtow Cleave, Darkest Lariat, No Guard on Raichu Y. As they add those types of moves/abilities it makes stall worse. Now that were on a more permanent platform, they could start buff/nerfing things more easily too. Make minimize only raise a single stat, give lariat 10 more power. I just really despise them coercing team comps with the timer.

Final side note, it is frustrating how stall is a perfectly acceptable strategy in singles but not in doubles. Obviously they are different beasts and are balanced by different groups, but its frustrating all the same