We can't count on a user (either in the browser or using the API) waiting around that long. Even some of our own services time out more aggressively than that.

We can't count on a user (either in the browser or using the API) waiting around that long. Even some of our own services time out more aggressively than that. Those situations can be smoothed over with retries, but we try pretty hard to avoid delays like this in the first place.