The 49 Euro ticket is about local transportation, when you are talking about 3h you are talking about intercity transportation not covered by this ticket.

Intercity travel has lots of punctuality problems but many of the local train operations and S-Bahn are often much superior. At least in places where I have been, like Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hamburg the local transport has been very good.

Not everything in live is about long distance communing.

> 3h down to the 1h

That completely depends on the details of your route and ignores lots of possible aspects. As a universal statement its just outright false.