Just my humble opinion:
I don't think this change will encourage laziness and that there won't be a sudden influx of normal-only sets, because I believe that when someone decides to map a song, they do it because they like it. Maybe I'm just being sentimental or something, but I don't think many people would be willing to impoverish/underrepresent music they enjoy. There would, of course, be those who exploit the rules UC proposed, and I don't think much can be done to avoid it, but, as has already been mentioned several times in this thread, we've got people who map EZNM sets even now. The only difference is that there would be no EZ.
Plus, I honestly don't feel like there are that many songs over 4:15, and even less over 4:30 (at least in the genres I enjoy), so there won't be that many insane-only sets either. Not to mention that in many cases insane is not the top diff.
Honestly, I can't see this proposal as anything but helpful, especially for newbie mappers like myself, who not only need to put more time and effort into their maps than experienced mappers, but also often struggle with finding people willing to GD exactly because of their visible inexperience. And this is even more true in case of longer songs.
There, the token newbie post for you.
I don't think this change will encourage laziness and that there won't be a sudden influx of normal-only sets, because I believe that when someone decides to map a song, they do it because they like it. Maybe I'm just being sentimental or something, but I don't think many people would be willing to impoverish/underrepresent music they enjoy. There would, of course, be those who exploit the rules UC proposed, and I don't think much can be done to avoid it, but, as has already been mentioned several times in this thread, we've got people who map EZNM sets even now. The only difference is that there would be no EZ.
Plus, I honestly don't feel like there are that many songs over 4:15, and even less over 4:30 (at least in the genres I enjoy), so there won't be that many insane-only sets either. Not to mention that in many cases insane is not the top diff.
Honestly, I can't see this proposal as anything but helpful, especially for newbie mappers like myself, who not only need to put more time and effort into their maps than experienced mappers, but also often struggle with finding people willing to GD exactly because of their visible inexperience. And this is even more true in case of longer songs.
There, the token newbie post for you.