It would be nice if you could just apply whenever. Like apply this year and go next fall. It's hard for 2+ people to get their lives in order to drop everything in a short window.
An incubator focusing on those who can’t drop everything on a moment’s notice seems like a good idea.
Because of kids, or other obligations, whatever. I bet there’s a lot of entrepreneurial talent that gets left out of the startup ecosystem because of the expectation that you spend all your waking hours working.