Zone damage to strong

But why are you dying to the zone? Myself, in 9/10 times the zone is the reason why I am eliminated from the match (directly or indirectly) are:

1. because I get too greedy for loot, like jumping far away to the edge of the map and get am unfortunate, far first circle and loots my way towards it, way too long and way too greedy. 
   
   
2. because I just dont pay attention or care about the circle and possible choke points to my way there. 
   
   
3. Because I sometimes is to "scared" to do what I have to do, i.e compete for the circle or even position to have an advantage to take a new positon inside the new circle . 
   
   
4. I do stupid stuff like prioritizing looting a box outside the circle instead of just running, or thirsting a kill instead of running etc
   
   

I think the game gives you enough time see the next circle and to plan your approach to it for it to not be something you can really blame on if you die to it =).  I would hate if they make the circle so insignificant so that those teams who actually prioritized taking the new circle would get half the lobby coming in from behind to third party them long after the circlr has shut

This wasn't always the case, but back when the zone did less damage, a large portion of the game would be spent by players inside of the zone.

This had actually become quite problematic, as in this case the zone would not pose a threat in any way whatsoever. Personally I feel like the zone should be a threat. Currently it's not impossible to stay inside of the zone and loot early-game, but I definitely don't think it's a place where people should be hanging around too long. (This is why they also added an extra separate timer that will kill players if they stay in the zone for too long)

To get to ring level 4 it already roughly takes around 14 minutes, which I personally believe is a good time for a BR ring to close. If it were to take longer for the ring to close, and the ring were to do less damage, this would mean that it would be much harder to encounter other teams, as larger sections of the map would be available and therefore the density of players at certain players would become lower. Which IMO would not make gameplay all too fun since you'd just be searching for teams constantly.

I don't play a lot of different BR's so I'm not sure how well it compares to other games, but I don't think it's bad for Apex to be different. After all, why have different games if they're going to designed to be the same anyways?

Though, what is it that you would like to see?
Would you increase the time it takes for rings to close and make the ring do less damage?

If so, why would you want that? Is it that you want matches to take longer, or is it that you don't feel like you have enough time to loot?