I noticed that many games took the theme and just made a 5-minute limit to the gameplay and I think it’s an extremely uncreative and cheap take on the theme, hence why so many people did it the same way!
I 100% agree with both of you. It does feel like a cop out, but it was really difficult to find an outside the box interpretation. One of my earlier ideas was that you were working from home and had a date after. Your goal was to clean up your apartment in your limited free time before she came over or your extremely neat girlfriend would break up with you. I scrapped that because it would be too much for me in the time limit, but I really liked that one.