Was there always a timer on Phobos? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, September 25, 2015, 16:29 (3443 days ago)

In the daily heroic, there's a timer near the end, and if you don't finish the mission in time, you get 'taken'. Was it always this way? Or is this part of another SECRET?