That's because one doesn't usually look at their watch to find out what the time is: most of the time (pun unintended) we want to how much time is left for an activity, or for an activity to start.
As in, how many more minutes before my flight takes off, or how much time left for this exam?
Re: ghosting - this was the single biggest annoyance when I was hiring en masse.
The HR executives would ghost both potential hires and no hires, because they couldn't be bothered to keep track (or they didn't understand the nuances.)
Our successful hiring rate went up when we cut HR out of the hiring loop, contained them in salary fit and background checks. The hiring manager was responsible for keeping candidates informed.
We kept diaries to keep track of potential hires and periodically went through them before starting a new search, something which recruiting agencies would charge us to do, but never did.
My last company had the best of both worlds, they paid the card directly provided you submitted your expenses reports in time and allowed you to use the points. The CEO overrode the bean counters on this.
This is what makes sense for me as well. All I need a local model is for playing with simple graphics: no gradients, at most ten colours which I can push through VTracer to get an SVG. Draw Things does the job, usually in 120 seconds or less.
Sometimes, I need a quick throwaway bit of python. That can take 30 minutes of my time.
The only thing which counts is raw power and the means to deliver it. The US just got a lesson in its limits from the Iranian regime.
Countries with natural resources need their own defense against thieves like the US and its vassals. Libya, Iraq, Syria. Oil and no nukes. Fat use the UN was for them.
(Forget about the UN. Take a home owners' association. In due course a clique will take it over and corrupt it.)