The biggest reason, if memory serves, that we started off using a timer was because of how we used to do sheep, where if you pause it the sheep would shoot off and it made it so they would still move without the in-game timer moving. Since we have a skip to avoid the herding altogether, we can probably switch to just using IGT, right? Seems cleaner.

Just a thought. I feel like, if we do that, it could also be possible to submit by just a video from the Share function on the Switch, where, say, you drive through the portal where you can see the timer, skip credits, and show best completed time in the options menu after it loads back up. Simple change that could make the run more accessible?

IGT and RTA are optimised differently based on how much you take advantage of Quitting. Ctrlx clearly optimised as if for IGT, whereas HotCocoa has optimised for RTA.

I think the main route should be optimised for RTA as splits are easier this way and it is the more common method. However, there could be an extra category added for runs optimised for IGT, allowing their slightly different routing to count for something on the leaderboard.