The pull of eora bug doesn't seem necessary anymore to get a faster time, there are now faster ways to kill enemies. Maybe its time to merge the any % unrestricted and restricted oob categories together?

This is something I've been considering as well, though I don't know if anyone with a PC capable of getting >60 FPS in the Garden has timed themselves doing an IL to see how much it would save over Grimoire of Storms strats. (I'm imagining even one failed pull already makes it slower than both GoS and Sword routes.) Saying this since the current route doesn't stop at any merchant in Thirdborn anymore outside the cookie guy, and buying Grimoire of Entropy is about a 10s timeloss (on top of another second or so it would take to equip it at some point, plus for the extra Grimoire passive point you'd need since GoS only needs two points). If first try PoE kills on the Maegfolc were to net you a sub 2 min Garden, then I'd argue it's still a problem. (For reference, my current gold with GoS strats is 2:13 and I feel like that's pretty optimized; Eric's is 2:16 according to his last VOD.)

That said, I honestly think the easiest solution at this point is to just do a blanket ban for PoE across all categories since I don't think anyone wants to fuck with it at all due to how boring and random it is, and because if a longer category is eventually introduced like All Side Quests, All Bosses, etc., it would definitely overtake everything as the most optimal route. An awkward rule to have, especially considering there's tech like dodge boosting and some skips like power attacking up the wall slope with the axe for Assassination Skip that are also reliant to a degree on high FPS, but I'd say those are nowhere near as problematic as PoE in the game's current state. Willing to hear what more people have to say about that, though, but in my experience the run has undeniably become a thousand times more enjoyable since PoE became obsolete for Any%.