I remember 100% sure you could hop 3 times before you would get the 45 second cooldown?
The developers are going to want stronger evidence than “I remember it being this way”. Do you have any sort of tangible evidence? I believe the devs considered this possibility but in the absence of evidence went for the more conservative option.
As a personal opinion, I like that world hopping is discouraged. Just play the game instead of trying to work around its systems.
Well i don’t have evidence but the reason i bring it up is not to hop to buy items or anything it just feels really bad when you get crashed out your training spot and got to wait 45 seconds every hop to find a new world.
Be glad there are even other worlds at all. On RSC Preservation, there’s only one world. 
All shops would be empty all the time without timer.
After 3 hops you would still get a 45 second timer also I’m pretty sure this already happens to every shop but i guess it’s not as fast.
got very real evidence of 2006 being 30 sec https://youtu.be/ERCgRpqKk7Q
Nice i still think they had 3 free hops before the timer maybe he had already hopped a few times but this does show it was 30 and not 45 seconds that’s kinda pog sadly they won’t change unless its 2004.
the basis for current timer is a source from 2007 afaik lol
Maybe we could see a change then i guess we will see.
I do remember the 3 hop mechanic as well… Not sure when it was introduced though