I don't see this as a big deal so long as the respawn time is significant, which it more or less seems to be. I count 4-5 seconds. Hopefully that is a constant amount of time across speed classes because 4-5 seconds is much more significant game-play wise at Phantom speeds than at Flash speeds.
People are such shits in online games-- personally I think that anything that keeps players from dropping out is a good thing
Interesting, hadn't thought about that issue.
For ****'s sake, they are only trying to make the game better and more friendly to newcomers.