As a 16 year old who has been working with his hair on fire for the past 7 weeks, I'm glad the build season isn't longer. At first glance, one would say "Hey, look, we have more time to accomplish the same task, it'll be easier on us", however they forget about the rest of the teams. The ones who will use every last minute given to them to make sure their robots are near perfect in performance and their drivers have had as much practice time as possible. While you do the same thing as last year in more time, they'll do more things than last year in the same amount of time you do what you normally do. The entire metagame would change to teams who worked at a slower and easier pace during the longer build season, and teams who had a robot finished in 6 weeks, have had 6 more weeks to practice and iterate, and then the time between bag and tag and competition to work with their practice bot.

I know if I had to go through a longer build season, I'd want to use every second of it to get the most competitive advantage I can. I also know that if build season were longer, I probably wouldn't be in FRC, because working with my hair on fire for 6 weeks is bad enough, working longer with my hair on fire to keep up with the competition is worse. I'm a kid in high school. I can learn to juggle schoolwork and robotics for the first 6 weeks of the year. But when it starts getting longer, my time becomes thinner and thinner, something I can't work with.


TL;DR - A longer build season will just mean more time working your butt off to stay competitive.