Oh ok.

As for the question, my answer is : I uncomfortably speed up, wishing I was playing a different game (I don't like timers, I like to ponder).

By default, timers and countdown reward speed. It's what we've been trained to assume. It's a rather cheap and uninteresting way to troll people, if a timer pops up with no other indication and then punishes the player for this assumption.

Because https://xkcd.com/169/ .

That being said, there are humorous contexts where you expect subversions, trickery and abused ambiguities. And in these it can be fun to try to guess what's going on with the timer, or to be caught forgetting to double-guess the timer while you were double-guessing all the rest. Typical of such contexts is Alex Horne's "Taskmaster" game show. "All the information is on the task"...

I'll give it a shot. It's not a complete deal breaker to me. But I do, in general, dislike hard time limits in games. I despise Majora's Mask, I can't get into Fallout 1, and even Pathfinder is a tough one to play knowing I have a time limit hanging over me like the Sword of Damocles. So asking discussion questions on a discussion forum is akin to a terrorist attack on a busy city? What are you smoking?

I'd argue that short-term time limits, like what I'm talking about, are not as bad as full game time limits, like those in Kingmaker or Fallout 1.

I just fight the boss and hope a nuke goes off if it ends up counting down, otherwise what would be the point?

I think it's just pointing out OP's tendency to make threads with an obsessive bent towards certain game mechanics. The bombing comparison is just a humorous angle.

I'd agree. That's why I'd give it a shot and try to win (As I have many times in the past). Not as much with games with a full game timer, even if that timer is generous like Kingmaker.

I remembered a part in Final Fantasy 5 with two timers at the same time:
* One visible timer. If it runs out, you're dead, and the game makes this clear.
* One hidden timer. If you wait for this timer to run out, you win the battle, and the game dies drop some hints.

Then again, this reminds me of a situation in Sonic the Hedgehog 1, where it's possible to get a stage clear and a game over at the same time; if the stage clear finishes first, you get to start the next level with no lives (and dying causes an underflow).