[xenophanes]

Why are you so eager to take a subject you know very little about and try to correct people who are much more familiar with it?

In the context of competent players, you specifically said that plenty of people play 5min bughouse. This is false and results in lengthy sitting.

I don't think you're getting that the way they are playing wrong is completely different than not being Kasparov. Learning to play like Kasparov would take ~20,000 hours. Learning basic time management would take ~15 minutes and make them easily twice as effective. Total ignorance is a poor defense against this -- and won't last given they want to hold a tournament -- fixing the rules to do what they want is a good way to keep the game roughly how they want.

They tried to fix their problem by changing the time control from 2min to 5-10min. They already made rule changes to try to slow the game down, but those changes were naive and are ineffective against anyone with 15minutes of basic training.

[Steko]

"a subject you know very little about "

Quit pretending that you know anything about me or that you're the only person that knows anything about bughouse. I've been playing bughouse longer then you've apparently lacked basic social skills.

[xenophanes]

I went to the early bug gatherings at Ajedrez's house, played ~10,000 games, have taught chess, know a bunch of GMs and top bug players, etc etc

So basically you think you have enough status you should beat someone on the internet, and you're arguing because you don't realize you're completely outmatched?

You also haven't addressed any of my actual points, e.g. that 5min bug = 3+ min of sitting, and this can be learned in very short order.