I believe that a small change should be made to the Hidden mod so that the timing circle appears for the first beat of a map. It's very unnecessarily difficult to gauge that first beat on any map given that the length of time between starting/skipping into a map and that actual first beat is essentially up to the user that made the map and doesn't prove any skill. I've had plenty of times where I'm trying to SS a map with hidden and a good 60-80% of my restarts are purely from missing that first beat alone.