It has been divisive, hasn't it?
And yeah, the 3m mark was chosen arbitrarily, but probably influenced by the slowdown in sales. But, that in itself was as you say, possibly influenced by the discord announcements at 2 minutes. So, people might not have bought at that point and are now going to miss out twice :D
And the voting will be interesting, as the ones who are most affected, are those who took part in the presale, but who don't necessarily have a lot of voting stake. For example, I am equally as affected by the change in airdrop as @azircon, as we both bought 2400 - but I have a fraction of his SPS stake to vote with.
In some ways it is, "them the breaks" and next time, the UI and cutoffs will be better designed.
Yeah we don't always get what we want in life and sometimes luck play a role. Interesting point that you brought up about the voting stake though.