Yes!

I want to touch on "the mods ruled out that Garuda was this OP". The game is for sure already RNG heavy, and getting a garuda definitely doesn't guarantee a sub-30min run even, i know first-hand. I like to look at it this way though... what is your average clear time for a floor going to look like with garuda and without garuda. I know from my own runs that the clear time is on average quicker. We are all still dependent on the seed and RNG, but garuda even alleviates the idea that other pickups are all that important, that you could actually start saving time by ignoring ball and scroll pickups as you have your get-out-of-jail right behind you. I feel it simply changes runs so much that it should be its own category.