I appreciated much of the hard work put into positive changes being made here lately, and it's my own fault for not reading the alert text quickly enough, but I generally correct issues within an hour (often within ten minutes) and provide appropriate lease extensions and refunds when necessary, so how do I disable this auto-cancellation feature?

I lost 24 hours of rental because of a 45 minute ISP issue that I could have easily compensated for by extending the lease.  Considering my rigs were rented for 0.0065 BMD and the new floor on the list is now under 0.006 BMD, I lost 24x0.0005 = 0.012 BTC, even if I had rented right away for 24 hours.

And please let us choose how we're paid.  Getting paid in DOGE is murder - by the time I'm done with a lease, especially a longer one, the DOGE is almost always worth less than what it was worth when the lease started.