I see this common trap with everytime when there is an expansion in testing or patch in testing and its often something can be taken out of context without being informed or reading the context, despite as someone (me) who doesn’t has access to alpha, I do keep myself informed than taking it out of context like the soft timer that people is outraging over. Please be informed instead of taking it out of context.
After all the reading, its not an actual timer where it literally kicks you out of the instance but its a timer that increases the difficulty of the run you are doing, the longer you are in it, the harder it will be sure having some anima powers will cancel some of the early spikes out but not for long. Torments as they called, will be swapped out or reset depending on the floor, some will be permanent for the entire run
There is a Rest Zone that will appear in every floor you enter, this will pause the timer that increases difficulty and within it, you can change your talents or take the time to break, not sure how long the rest zone will last but pretty sure it will have a set timer where it disappears in the current floor.
Hopefully this will help people understand.