HylianGlaceon
Hyrulean Resident
Those are the 2 problems with turn based competitions. The reason I don't like Shuffle Moves is that it bypasses the intelligence/patience of the person, leaving almost pure luck, and the game itself is already mostly luck. I like to think that most timed competitions have more skill in it, so it feels like a competition, and not like a lottery u.u
You still have to be quite patient to use Shuffle Move. It takes quite a while to type in everything to the board. Probably around 10+ minutes per stage depending on the number of turns. You'll also typically see the best move just from putting everything in than relying on the program most of the time. It's probably actually good for training yourself honestly.
Timed Stages are better for people with better reaction skills, not necessarily those who are more skilled at the game. The game trains you to be the opposite which is why Timed Stages are often harder than Turn based to most of us.
On another note, I'd just prefer Competitions to stop and all stones be released via main stages, but that'll never happen obviously. Hated them since the first Lucarionite competition, still hate them now.
Pause buffering was removed several patches ago though...
Home Buffering and Pause Buffering are different. Pause buffering involves the pause menu that most of us never use which I'm fairly sure is still in. I have no idea how they do it, but it still exists somehow.