The real issue is speedrunning these days is massively disconnected from what it start as. Back then - especially when games were focused on score attacks - speedrunning was entirely about showing off mad skills at a game top get the high score. These days the focus has shifted from knocking that fucker AAA from the leaderboards to getting to an end state (such as game credits) as fast as possible by any means which leans int o an entirely different mindset and playstyle.