I am still wondering if this has been brought to the mods or any of the developers attention and or is on a list of updates to be made? Or has now need changed to be less time to wait between a Search? Which I can only assume is to slow down users on the website when there is a lot of traffic? If that’s the case, I’m sure there would be a work around to fix this and remove or reduce it to a more appropriate timer of 1-10 seconds but really it shouldn’t be there again unless it serves another purpose.??
Admins are well aware of the limit imposed, there's a
work around as you put it, in the form of whitelisting users, though this isn't done often. I'm not hundred percent sure if whitelisting reduces search time though, although it practically reduces most other wait times, so I imagine it does.
You
could request to be whitelisted, though like I said unlikely for most users.