Only seems logical. The leaderboard looks silly with that huge drop, and also I'm assuming both CaracarnVi and NESCardinality have non-manip runs that would rank in the top 2-3 if categorised separately.

if there is going to be a different category, it should be "No Save & Quit" rather than "No RNG Manip" Because you can technically do RNG manipulation in the long grinding run, it's just not as extreme.

Cool, maybe "Any%" / "Any% Single Segment" a la Final Fantasy NES?