Nope, that era’s passed thank God, the only people who liked that mechanic were the bot users farming for RMT gold.
The annoyance is that it lets you start to gather then disappears, it should either lock itself to prevent another gather and then vanish or else allow an in-porogress gather to complete before disappearing.
Yep. And since I don’t use Vigor at all with Soar and dynamic flying… I’m hopping like mad from one to the next.
Now this makes sense! Palia even has this. The node will start flashing, slowly at first and then it will speed up as the timer gets shorter. Their nodes also don’t disappear if you hit it. The flashing will stop and let you gather it if you’re close to the end of the timer.
Huh, didn’t think of that for drac
I didn’t either! I was always gathering on my Druid. But I leveled this one first and was like, “OMG… why didn’t I realize this sooner?!”
What is maddening is your in last stroke of mining and poof there goes the node and you get no ore…grrrrr
In the name of all that is good in this world, please do not do this. The benefit of all of the “tapped” nodes that you made it to in time overwhelmingly outweighs the miniscule number of times you’ve been inconvenienced by the despawn timer. In a wow with such rampant and unmitigatable botting, you do not want this reality.
The answer to that question is always yes! 
Well soulwell is out baby cookies for everyone
Of all the things I have an issue with in this game, THIS has to be the absolute worst thing ever.
This is one of the biggest problems with professions, if you are a gatherer half your time is wasted either getting a node and it disppearing, or worse, spending time to mine/pick the stupid thing and than it disppearing, not only is it wasting my time but its losing me gold which also equates to buying more game time. fix your game blizzard, jesus christ…
Its the worst when its a good node and it disappears just when the cast bar reaches the end.
I really really hate those mine nodes that I am on last smack of my mining pick and poof goes the node…I am likearghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
Same goes for my Druids when out herbing …grrrrrrrrrrrr
Solution found!
Make all nodes EZ-Mining/Gathering and automatically overload upon first gathered.
You will see the timer!
I’m just joking 
I’ve noticed a lot that I will see a node on the minimap, and the moment I get to it, I “zone- change”. The node is on the edge of a “zone” and will disappear when I get into the new “zone”. By zone, I mean a mini-zone within one of the 4 main areas.
apparently as stated by others above there is no zone swapping or layering. its just that the item was picked by someone before you causing its time to start running out.
At this point with as many people as its affecting it could be all three and we would have no idea.
Blizz communication is 0
RICH BISMUTH!!!
Oh…
Nope 
Very possible. Although in my experience, I have flown back and forth between the two zones, and watched a node reappear and then disappear, multiple times. At some level it’s a zone/phase thing. I don’t know squat about how it all works at this point after all these years, but something is not quite working as intended.
Did this the other day. It was when the new zone name would pop up. Node would spawn in then when I got there it was like it was on the edge of a phase or zone wall. As soon as the new zone registered the node would vanish.
My stubborn high self tested this thoroughly
Edit: but thats just one of the type of despawning problems. Thats not what always happens
Oh yes there is phasing when there shouldn’t be…the area where Dalaran crashed is phased you can see the mobs and that but mine …herb and fishing nodes you see on the map when you approach them they disappear…the fleet arriving just down the beach also messed up a bunch of fishing nodes not showing on the map now if you have done the Fleet has Arrived quests.