@finegamingconnoisseur I think you are overthinking it.
So far this change just makes people not want to leave town because they dont have the time to go places and then return to town. The old system no one logged out while criminal to hide and no one followed red players away. Most of the time you just drop or trade it to a guildy your stuff and ghost to Cave Camp to get rep in the past.
Most people wouldn't waste time running after a red player even if they couldn't log out why have a lot of people spend all that time to chase down one person when they all have better things to do.
SV has only stated so far that the logout system was to stop Combat logging, siege delay logging, and logging in dungeons.
One thing I think they should add is that if you are a criminal then you cant start a log out timer. Would be funny if a criminal had the 30s quick log out in town right now.