Some rules exceptions save time but most are simply protecting the "casual player" score.
If you hit the ball OB and drop in the fairway near where it went in, it doesn't add any more time to the round to add two penalty strokes to your score than one.
If you lose your ball in the fairway, it doesn't add time to the round to add two strokes to your score as compared with declaring "leaf rule"
Putting out 18" putts should not take any time. People who dwell over them, particularly high handicappers, do so because they are missing a lot of them.
Continuation putting is allowed in stroke play. You don't have to rigidly go in turn.
People kick or throw a ball a couple of feet off the cart path. That is no big deal. No real advantage gained there. But the "casual player" also often takes relief on the fairway side of the path even when nearest point of relief is clearly in a worse condition than the path over in a bush somewhere. That shaves most of a stroke off their score right there.
When a ball rolls up to a root similar, people take free relief sometimes claiming abnormal course conditions or unmarked GUR. You shouldn't hit a ball lodged against a root or a rock, but doesn't add any time to the round add a stroke for unplayable
Pick up after net double. That actually saves time. But if its a stroke hole, that means its a triple or a quad (depending on how many strokes you are getting).
I am sure there are many more examples.
But have said all that, there are no golf police. The villages is very casual and people can do whatever they want.
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