Totally agree. Plus I think the real-time, 24 hour format has become stale.
It was a gadget format in the first place. I was surprised they kept it beyond the first season. It was cool to have that ticking clock but they cheated the real-time so regularly (how many times did Jack drive across LA during a commercial break, when everybody who ever lived there knows it take 2 hours to get anywhere in LA) it almost became self mocking.