8 clicks/keystrokes to start a new game!

I prefer time controls of 1-2 (meaning 1 minute, 2-second increment).  It takes me eight clicks/keystrokes to set up such a game:

(1) Click the + sign.
(2) Click Custom.
(3) Drag through the "10" in the minutes field.
(4) Type a "1".
(5) Tab to the seconds field.
(6) Type a "2".
(7) Click OK.
(8) Click Play.

Other sites might do this in just a few clicks/keystrokes, but they're catering to the lazy.  I applaud Chess.com for recognizing that its own users are higher-quality people who prefer to put in lots and lots of clicking and typing effort just to start a game.  Hell, some user-interface specialist might have set it up so that the site noticed I played 1-2 last time and then offered to let me play the same time controls again with a single click, but Chess.com has made sure that no such people were allowed anywhere near its user interface.  After all, nothing worthwhile comes easy, right?  So, kudos to Chess.com for not offering any insulting "shortcuts" to its users.

more clicks and scrolls are needed to carry out lots of functions, not just starting games...

Sponsored by the food industry, no doubt.

Making you use up additional energy of about 1/100 calorie per game may not seem much, but it sure adds up on a site with millions of users.

It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

i'm not bothered about losing a calorie or two, but many of the extra clicks are just a needless hassle...

Getting angry about it accelerates your pulse and increases your blood pressure.

In other words, it burns even more calories.

It's a feature! Here you'll find the highest clicks/$ ratio.

Maybe they could even improve more and add some "Are you sure?" dialogues in between.

lol