2-minute meta

[Heroman3003]

Just my speculation but it's feedback from people who love seeing huge numbers on the screen that have mostly shaped the combat into what it is today.

YoshiP directly confirmed it tbh. People kept complaining all over about how it was too hard and complicated to sync buff timers, so they unified the timings and created 2 minute meta as a result. And those complaints were, obviously, primarily coming from parse-sweating 'hardcore raiders' (except usually they arent even hardcore raiders, just people who do savage raiding badly and look for any excuse that doesn't require them to improve). And that's why they don't want to change it, because they don't want to play a game of back-and-forth between "give us synchronized buff timings!" and "unhomogenize things!"