I'm just curious because I don't want to have to downgrade just to play and I just want to have as little maintenance as possible while speedrunning with the game because technology is just a headache, even as a young person who grew up with it.

yes you can, but there's disadvantages to it, downgrading isnt very hard anyways. It takes like 4 minutes at most to setup

I'm just doing the latest, I'm new to this stuff so I'll just do that for now, I'll make that a disclaimer whenever I get to it. Thanks for the information. ;)