If admins were there all the time to make both of the things you mentioned happen Carmichal, I'd agree with you. Unfortunately an admin isn't always around, and I've definitely run into the aforementioned 'wait too long for two nards to try to kill each other' scenario, as well as the 'nard wants to run from a knife fight and cause someone to lose levels' scenario.

I get arguments both for and against making changes, I really do. My personal opinion is acceptance of a knife fight should be 100% automatic when it's a 1v1 situation unless one player or the other is on nade level. I get why folks wouldn't like that scenario, but it would certainly improve on the knife fight mod's intended affect, which is to get to the next round as quickly as possible.