consoles start a week after pc, AND 4 hours later in day?

It currently feels like a Marathon event where all the Pros get the big start at a certain time with lots of fanfare and then two hours later when everybody left, us "Amateurs" ask when we can start and some official just shrugs and says "Whenever you feel like, your times don#t matter anyway."
I'm not a racer in PoE but still, the psychological difference of a proper anticipated launch and this impossible time slot somewhere in the middle of the week not only lacks the positive vibes of "Here we go!" but adds the negative "whatever, you don't count" and I don't think it has to.