My opinion here probably doesn't matter much, cause i'm not even a runner, just a learner on console category and follower of this amazing community, but here it is. I see a reason to ban FPS fix, even tho we don't know for sure how much the difference is, the fact of it improving performance for certain hardwares is already a good way to justify it, but this community never cared so much about something like SSD/HDD, something that clearly makes a lot of difference in load times, so why care for this now? If we think about the possibility of the AMD+FIX ever making a difference is minimum, Final Fantasy XIII is a run about so many things, precision, fight execution, the focking dodges, even improvisation sometimes, there is so many variables in a 4+hours run that even a ~4% speed up on walking sections will probably never make a significant difference (and probably have never made until this day).

Yes, the Fix is a mod, and mods are something tricky to decide on a speedrun community, and it is different from installing a memory drive on your PC, but we all need to be honest, this port is shit... and even tho having a decent pc to speedrun is something obvious and basic, we need to see that this port is very unstable and poorly made, and the fix is something that have always helped all users (Intel and AMD) dealing with it (and we all know that the port is bad even with really good setups), and probably brought some people to the community, like, i am the only brazilian here, probably one of the few members of the community from the third world, where hardware is super expensive (eat or play games), i have a simple AMD setup, the game runs ok alone but with obs it starts to fuck up, if i buy a simple video card and use the fix i can have a really decent performance to start running pc. So for me, if we ban the FIX, we will be looking just at time, speed, competition, instead of looking at a community that reunites around the love for game that people normally misjudge.

My solution would be: One PC leaderboard but now detailing "Intel/AMD+Fix/no Fix" and "SSD/HDD".

PS: without mentioning the thousands of weird interactions that the fix and the game itself can have with different processor+video card combination, we maybe dealing with something so variable that we can't even count on.