He's talking about the punishment for screwing up. In THZ it's just lost time (your frustration too, but that was something you put on yourself). Miss the token in CEZ and you die.
I personally like that both THZ1 and THZ2 have tokens that require actual effort and on-the-spot thinking to get. They are in no way required, but the players who do manage to get it will feel damn good about it.
I'd say wasted time out weighs dieing.
In the amount of time I could spend trying to get either THZ token, I coould mess up once or twice getting the 2nd CEZ1 token and still feel like I haven't been wasting my time. Especially since I'd be done before even reaching the same amout of time taken on the THZ tokens.