30 min cd on airship exploration, good/bad idea? Why?

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SE announced during the live letter that airship exploration will have a 30 min cool down after you get back.

Do you guys think this is a good or bad idea? SE seems to want some feedback on this since they were themselves ambivalent about the concept it seemed.

Personally, I think it's a bad idea for a few reasons.

The first reason: being able to adapt on a whim if the party changes size. Say you join a PF group to do an 8-man exploration. Once you guys enter, two people leave after a wipe. What does your group do now? You either keep going with a two-person deficit or back out and eat the penalty.

The second reason: there can be strict time constraints on a static groups time together. For example, my group will only be available in 3 hr chunks during the week, It could suck if we lost 30 mins of our 3 hours together.

The third reason: there is no way to track penalties of other players, so you could end up forming a group and can't join until someone's cool down runs out.

The last reason: I don't want to wait around for content I am sure we all will want to spam.


Those are my concerns. Why is the 30 min cd good or bad?