I have a different experience. On my BG its mostly races to the end, with short games. A few games a few people defended, giving us the win, but it was still over in 20 minutes. The longest game I have seen lasted 55 minutes, which is still fine given the amount of honor you are getting.
I can see people being upset that their free wins are gone and they actually have to play though

Ironically, before the change AV was the only BG where Horde had no wait in BG9. Now we have like 5-10 minute queues. I guess less Alliance play now due to the change.