Here are @jhull’s thoughts from his article on Audience Reach. In this section he’s discussing the issue with Linear + Timelock stories:
That’s because it is relating a story about a character who has no concept of the pressure supposedly building up around them. They would be completely disaffected and disinterested. And so would the Audience. Holistic thinkers don’t see time the way linear thinkers do—they don’t see it as something that cannot be malleable and transmuted into something else.
The idea is that Holistic thinkers sort of see a Timelock as “dumb” because what is time, anyway? If you can picture the whole thing at once (all four dimensions including time), then time no longer seems like a limit. Or at its best, a very trivial, one-dimensional limit.