If someone wants to time travel that is their choice I guess. Like, if someone won't be able to make it to an event they could just time travel to it to partake.
As for me I time travel but only in the same day, like I go later in the night, back in morning etc. I don't go days in the future or past though.
People can play the game the way that they want to. It doesn't make them bad for doing so. I don't do it because I like the real-time aspect. I mean, I did do it once, but only to speed up getting my mayor license thingy because I reset my game... >.>
I don't understand why people always want to tell others how to play their games (some people, not saying everyone here)!! I mean, dang, I'm not too fond of the xbox live community but at least they don't have a conniption any time somebody uses an exploit in a game like many Nintendo fanboys/fangirls do! ._. I have unfortunately experienced this contention when I confessed on another site that I TT'ed ONE DAY to get my Nooklings' store open again without waiting for the expansion to be finished. I mean, my god, is it really that big of a deal?
I think that's the problem, a lot of people get too competitive and treat this game like a contest. :/ I'll be honest, if that's how you treat AC, I don't want to play with you anyway! I just want to have fun on my game and if the developers really LOATHED people TT'ing, there are ways they could have blocked it from being a possibility. It's an option because they know the style of play should be left up to choice, with benefits and consequences to both playing styles (TT'ing or non-TT'ing). Besides, imagine how much this game would suck for people with limited downtime to spend on playing video games if they couldn't TT at all?