I don't like any of the modern twists on snooker, because the original game is not broken.
Also, letting braindead consumers direct your games development never works out. Look at the mess that has been made of pool. We used to have 14.1 on 10 foot tables. Tables that used to be tall like snooker tables with glorious green cloth and traditional colour balls. Now we have 9 ball on 7 foot tables and new rules every week. The tables are so low that only midgets can play all day without injuring their backs. And who the f knows which ball has which colour anymore? There are literally new colours every week and somehow the colours make less and less sense. For instance when the cloth changed to blue (that's a whole thing in itself) some cretin decided that we should now change balls that were green previously to blue! It's like they're trying to destroy the game and they've done it IMO. Pool has been completely ruined. Should have left well enough alone.
I completely agree with you, everything changes, and it's almost always about money and not betterment or improvement of a game... but actually, times really have changed around us. I would say this is actually even more relevant to snooker than pool - a game that would be truly dead and buried if it wasn't for purists and fanatics (and Chinese/Saudi money).
As a game, It is simply too long for anyone but purists to truly enjoy in the current state of the world that has been manufactured for consumers to live in (...if you can call this living). So, as Mark Williams suggested, nothing needs to change, but a ball in hand would help speed things along a little.
Coming from an avid snooker player, whose dad would probably beat him senseless for suggesting the above.