In an enclosed space, every incident sound is heard many times over.
In reality, there will be many more repetitions heard for a longer time also. This is a comparatively small enclosed space thus the issue of very long reverberation time is not experienced.
When we are considering large enclosed spaces, this issue of excess reverberation time will create problems. Also here we have assumed that all surfaces reflect 100% energy, which does not happen in real-life cases. Some absorption however little by the type and properties of the object where the sound strikes every time will keep on reducing the energy at every reflecting instance. It becomes very simple for us to control the “Reverberation time”, two things matter. First is the volume and second is the absorptive quality of various inner surfaces of objects in the enclosed space.