Yeah, so
TL;DR
1 minute blox is gude
I'm reasonably sure I discussed this in the LTB podcast, but basically TFT's decision for a 1 minute block time was nonsensical. We don't know why he chose it, but it definitely wasn't based on any form of logic. Personally, if I had to do it over I'd probably go for a 3 minute block time or so.
We're also not closed to changing Monero's block time to 2 minutes, for eg., and doubling block rewards to match. However, it's low priority at the moment, and will require more research before we put a peg in the sand on that. Possibly the outcome of that research is "the current affect is not drastic, and technology is changing so rapidly that we don't see a need to change it", but we can only know once we get to it:)
I have only a slightly different view. If the decision was nonsensical and wasn't based on logic, then it should just be changed to something sensible at the earliest convenient opportunity. There is no need to do research to undo something that was nonsense and had no research supporting it to begin with. Every opportunity that goes by without fixing it is a decision that is being made
without research to continue what TFT started.
Then, once that is out of the way, it certainly makes sense to do research into whether it should be changed again, how to improve things, and so forth.
There is little practical difference at the moment, as it certainly isn't a convenient opportunity to make such a change, with the DB and other more urgent items in play.