Your point about ties being a tie-breaker down the road is pretty interesting. Haven't considered that before. However, they're breaking ties that might not have even happened if there had been a W/L in somebody's column.
The fact remains that having a tie in your record is far less likely to have your record matching that of another team.
The frequency with which they occur doesn't matter. Once is too many.
In your opinion, yes, but your opinion isn't fact so this statement has nothing to do with a credible debate.
Moreover, they're all but insuring that there will be more now going forward, and it's completely unnecessary.
Maybe, maybe not. First, you might wanna try to hunt down stats on how many OT games reach the 5:00 remaining mark and then realize that number will likely be reduced by a good, if not great, amount when teams are faced with the reality of a tie 5:00 earlier than they'd have been in years past. Teams not willing to settle for a tie will be more aggressive in the waning minutes of OT no matter how long the period is and obviously more so than they'd be if they thought they still had 5:00 left to work with.
Yeah, the shorter the OT, the less chance for a tie to be broken but 10:00 is still plenty of time. Also, you're still gonna get the occasional instance of a team being okay with a tie for whatever reason (far inferior team just desperate to avoid a loss to a team they had no business taking to overtime in the first place so they're just happy to avoid a loss in a game they have little confidence in themselves to win or a team that has the #1 seed wrapped up already and just wants to get out without risking further injury.)
I'm not agreeing with their decision to conservatively play for a tie either but rather I'm pointing out how the length of the OT, alone, doesn't specifically affect the outcome that severely in scenarios like that.
Lastly, I think the college OT rules taint single season scoring records. The same player could possibly get two or more TDs in the same sequence of OTs in a single game and a team could very possibly go to OT twice or more in the same season and we could see seldom-broken records like receiving TDs in a season being reset numerous times in a fairly short span of seasons before plateauing, all because of a more advantageous amount of time to work with.