Hussar
Legend
That's pretty much my take on it. Considering that wizards got scroll scribing as a class ability, it seems a bit of a dick move on the part of the DM to force players to ride the pines while other players play, just because they are using class abilities.Passive-aggressive discouragement of using the enchanting mechanics or a desire to reflect "realistic" time taken in a game that isn't realistic in any other way to a noticeable degree.
In any case though, I think there were significant enough tables that did use things like healing wands (or whatever) that HP attrition became largely superfluous in 3e. 4e and now 5e is a reaction to that. OTOH, if you played in a group that never crafted anything in 3e, then, sure, I can totally see why you'd find 4e and 5e's healing rates jarring. It's a major shift.