PLAY game clock is pointless

As with most upgrades on Chess.com, the Dev Team has yet to fix this GEM of an annoyance -- as soon as it is someone's turn in a live match (Live, not live, great naming, Chess.com STaFF), within 2 seconds, the annoying message of "So-&-so will auto-resign in 0:15 seconds" comes up. EVERY MOVE.

How annoying. I just want to focus on chess, not whether the Auto-Timer is the REAL TIMER or just a FAKE TIMER. Last I knew each opponent had XX minutes to begin with. Was that just a joke? Why it there an AUTO-TIMER if there's already a Game Clock???
Why do the Chess.com Dev Team insist on messing with the Game Clock? Clock alteration is illegal in most OTB formats. You never get to mess with the clock. You never hear the Tournament Director threaten yourself or your opponents with forfeiture pending NO MOVE within 15 seconds!!

Chess.com also does this with Vacation mode. 

What's worse, the Auto-Timer doesn't even appear to work. When one of my opponents really did attempt to eject from a losing position, a DISCONNECT AUTO-RESIGN banner appeared... and gave my opponent another 25 seconds. So, I guess the first Auto-Resign, post no move was just a joke. I should take the second Disconnect AUTO-RESIGN more seriously.

Come on, Dev Team. STOP MESSING with auto-resign timers and pushing players to play out of the constraints of the time given on the clock.

Yes, if players disconnect and do not reconnect within ~60 seconds, then I can see a player asking for the TD (Chess.com in this case) to make / call a forfeiture. Otherwise, let the Game Clocks do what they're meant to do---call the game.

The banners are plain ANNOYING. Especially when they pop-up every frikken move.

The auto-resign feature is very cumbersome for longer games : if you play a 45' game, you have to play your first ten moves within a minute each !

That message is in error and you can ignore it after the first move has been made. I know it's been reported and I believe devs are looking into it.

You can spend up to half the base time control on any move from move 2 through move 10. 

1. Why is it even there?
2. No, I have to see that pop-up come up just about every move.
3. If someone put in an auto-resign clock, why have a game clock?

My guess is the implementation is there for when someone gets close to reaching the long move timer in that first 10 moves and the implementation is bugged in some way.

While it's apparently bugged right now, having an alert if you get close to overstepping on that long move timer, is better than just ending the game when that is reached 

@Martin_Stahl -- regardless of whether it's bugged (which is a whole 'nother issue), someone at CHESS.COM decided to implement it in the first place.

It is insanely annoying.  Like trying to get legitimate answers out of chess.com Dev Team, I'd get more pleasure licking 50-grit sandpaper.

I agree, it's annoying.

The site implemented the long move timer so it makes sense to have an alert so members are aware they are getting close to overstepping that time limit, instead of just declaring the game lost if the move is not made in time.

LOL!  Do it slowly and with very light pressure.

NO MORE AUTO RESIGN!!!