30-second recording limit makes this product half useless

I'm extremely unsatisfied with my Ring products. I understand the desire to preserve battery by limiting recording to 30 seconds, but \*I\* bought this device and \*I\* bought extra batteries. Battery life shoul be \*my\* problem to manage and not your problem to manage for me. 30 seconds is wholly inadequate. It is the easiest thing to game. 1) trigger motion detection with back to camera. 2) wait off camera. 3) do your dirty deed during the recording cooldown. This product is almost worthless with such a limitation. I'm thoroughly disappointed, and certainly actively discourage this product to anyone. I'd rather give up remote monitoring and have a proper alway-on DVR-based camera system. I wish I had gone that route rather than spending so much money with Ring. To make things far worse, I can only get a live view about 50% of the time, getting a failure to connect error messag intermittenly the rest of the time. A call to support correct neither issue. I've put up with these prolems for a long while now, and I'm ready to chuck these off the roof. Oh well, buyer beware, i guess.