Is countdown in replays intended?

I tried to get the answer somewhere else but I haven’t seen a developer comment on it.

Is countdown in replays intended? To me logically there is no reason to have a 4 second wait in a replay and it can be annoying when loading up a wrong replay for example. I’m guessing with the support being cut we’re stuck with it for good?

yeah it’s intended.

Here is the announcement (1:09 in) StarCraft II - 10th Anniversary Game Updates - YouTube
it was apparently a “Player requested improvement” and it effects all ranked and unranked games, even replays.

It’s intended in matches on map load but I haven’t seen any dev clarification on whether they consciously decided to make it appear in replays, or if it was a case of “just leave it like this”.

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