I went to practice speedrunning DRDR today and saw there was an update adding a "casual" difficulty to the game. Is this going to end up being a separate category, or this allowed for NG+?

This is something I was also wondering tbh.

A casual option will be added in due course

I believe some scripts need to be added for the autosplits and load removal as well as I couldn't get it to work when I tried doing a speedrun on Casual difficulty. Did anyone else have this issue?