Quote Originally Posted by PyurBlue View Post
I can't speak to you and your friends' experiences, but I feel like unless a player was trying to force themselves to optimize while they're still learning, BLM then shouldn't have felt very different from BLM now for a new player.
Isn't it more the opposite? To an experienced player, nothing changes? They would never have dropped the timer anyways, not even close, so to them the change had 0 factual impact.

To a newer player, those would have frequently dropped their timer and/or failed to achieve a Flare Star, and that's now changed. Someone who knows the job would never let that happen to them so they play ~as before.