It's partially because of how many categories there are, that I suggested it again counterintuitively. MSQ SB/ShB/EW have so so many variations of categories and most of them have 0 submissions. There could be many reasons for this, the time it takes being one of them.

Everyone knows that dutyfinder is faster than trusts if people are atleast half awake. This means that you are entirely at the mercy of the randomness of relying on strangers, which takes away large amounts of skill for just luck. But because dutyfinder can be quicker than trusts, you have to use it. Additionally, after base ARR MSQ, you still need to use dutyfinder for trials, as there's no duty support for 8-man trials (except that one specific one at the end).

However, there is support for all of base ARR, many quests have been cut, and we have waking sands teleport tickets. DPS was never viable because queue times are miserable, but with duty support it becomes viable which is good because there are more dps classes in base arr than there are tank/healers combined. Sure, there will always be the best class to play, but for the start it opens more possibilities until the best gets worked out.

I'm a nobody who mainly just watches other people speedrun, so I know my word won't mean much of anything. I would be willing to submit a run or two for a trust category (though it'd be pretty bad), as just proof of believing in this idea and not just suggesting something without also contributing.

Was wondering, could there be a category for Solo (Duty Support) ARR MSQ up to first credits?

Right now the ARR category involves going to the end of 2.55, however, that's not possible to do with just duty support, which makes running it dependent on other people for those trials. If there were a category that just stopped at first credits, then the only variance would be overworld mobs and stuff. Then enforce no mail bonuses and no Road to 80 to remove pay-to-win aspects as well as dependency on preferred servers.

It'd need a lot of rules and decision-making to rule out having another person assist by killing mobs faster, but I think it'd be a more appealing category than all the way to end of 2.55, due to it being both shorter and more consistent. It'd still be a long run compared to other games, but this could be a good shot at having a proper to-credits running scene like other games do.