Yes she did, I think she got a little freaked out by it. The mod comments were short lived, 'cause that meme is now deleted.
The mod explained why the timer is there (to prevent abuse and a couple other reasons) and also that they're looking into a couple options to make things better. The other thing was they have received the feedback and no need to further flood their inbox with more feedback about the same issue.
Once in a while I dive into the webcode that makes up an imgflip page. From what I can tell, imgflip has tweaked the user facing code about 60 times since December 2017. Some of those changes were upgrades that are easy to see (rotated text boxes, new caption fonts, caption color selector, etc.) and some are probably more subtle changes that are not so easy to see. I bet there have also been a lot of changes under the hood on the back end, algorithm stuff no one can see but the mods.