Not everyone in “The Thief of Time” approves of the reliance on the extended will. Mark D. White advances an idealist argument rooted in Kantian ethics: recognizing procrastination as a failure of will, we should seek to strengthen the will rather than relying on external controls that will allow it to atrophy further.
I like to being able to see these differences in views on how to deal with procrastination. I can only imagine how different it is for various people and how they come to deal with it. I can even imagine the number of people who actually do research on it vs those who just live with it.