With this new difficulty mode on the horizon - I just want to state that I do not believe extended death timers is 'added difficulty' but rather an annoyance.  Nobody wants to sit around for extended periods of time doing nothing - and it just makes the missions tedious and boring as opposed to more difficult.

I see people more apt to quit a mission if they die rather than wait for their timer to expire. 

It simply is not a good user experience. 

Find another way to increase difficulty.  Forcing players to not play the game for longer and longer periods of time is not the answer - it's not fun, innovative or interesting to deal with.  

Again, it isn't that I don't want the mode to be more difficult - it's that I don't find this timer to be 'difficult' as opposed to 'boring'.