It's not semantics, your actually just wrong. 4 people playing 2 man teams takes the same time as two people playing. I've literally never been in a bowling alley that required you purchase additional lane time for anyone under 5 because they're not actually playing and the only person affected is you, the owner. I go with my son and my wife, we don't buy time for my son. Literally never been in a bowling alley that made us but time for him.

I'm in agreement with the one star review. Your defense of the owners actions is frankly stupid and fails any kind of logical test.

Which patron is the parent stealing time from? The person who couldn't play anyway if the child wasn't there because the two adults would be playing?

They already paid for the time either in number of games or straight minutes, bowling alley do both.

These little ramp shits don't take any more time to put in place or move than a regular player waiting for their ball to return, so there's at worst a negligible amount of time added to the length of two adults playing to give the kid a few plays.

I've never seen a bowling alley "pay by name"... That's the fucked up part here. That's what's making you think the child support anything from anyone because the owner lied about how the time was purchased.