Quote Originally Posted by Schan View Post
Yes, you understood it right and uuuh... I don't like that design. Why is it optimal to cut things short?

You know what? I agree with OP and this should be changed. Inexperienced people will not know you have to cut things short to get the best out of BRD.
The OP isn't advocating for the song duration to be changed, it's more a problem of how EA conflicts with the whole segmentation of the whole kit that requires to cut songs short in a very specific and awkward manner. The fact that you have some margin of excess within songs is actually good because it allows for some flexibility when you have downtime for example, which can allow to cut a song earlier without screwing up the entire rotation alignment timing with buffs, or to extend songs for similar purposes. If all songs were 40s each instead of 45s, you'd have literally zero leeway and you'd end up like SMN which struggles with certain downtime scenari because the structure of its rotation is too rigid: it suffers enormously when you have to delay bursts.