It is perplexing to me why most people seem to be fine with using IGT when save and quit is a perfectly legitimate game feature to use to save time, I don't care that is stops the IGT it is still faster to use S&Q. The greatest advantage of using IGT is removing load times allowing a more even playing field across PCs but it is not worth compromising how the run is played in my opinion. I've seen quite a few say in the discord channel that they prefer using IGT because of the use of deathwarps
makes the run "more strategic" which is true to some extent but is really unappealing because it makes the run slower for the sake of an arbitrary game number that works poorly for its intended purpose, to cut out loads from the real time run. Axiom Verge is a great example of this, the timer never stops even on the main menu when reloading the game.

Any% should be getting from the start of the game to the end with close to no restriction. To my knowledge the reason as to why the in game timer is implemented this way is because Yukon the dev actually wanted it to work this way because he thought he made the run more "interesting" which I personally don't care for, I speedrun to go fast not to do what is more "interesting". I would appreciate for there to be a S&Q category of some kind, I personally believe that this should the main to way to run the game but most seem to like for some reason so whatever. Given enough time I'm sure someone will make a livesplit plugin to will time out loads from real time runs which will remove the drawback of timing this way.

As an aside, having the game dev being a mod on src is a really terrible idea, this present a conflict an interest between the playerbase 
that actually run game and the dev who could quite literally directly influence moderation decisons effecting how the game is run. I don't give a damn about what the dev thinks, the runners should be the only ones to decide how the game is run.

I do actually like this game, I'm not just this posting this ruffle feathers it would be a shame for the speedrun board of this game to have poor 
structure and I have put a decent amount of effort into running the game.

Here is my RTA Speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdW9db5USE

tldr:IGT is slow, RTA is faster. Make RTA an option. Yukon should remove himself as a moderator

Mostly agreed, although I have no issue with Yukon being a moderator. Personally I find death warping a lot *less* interesting/fun than just save quitting; I could understand the argument more if death warps were also not allowed, but it's basically the exact same thing as S&Q but slower.

A Save & Quit category (or subcategory) would be sick.

The whole point of "Any%" is literally whatever is fastest without actually like modifying the game. Save & Quit is a feature of the game so I don't see what's wrong with using it. The gameplay is "different" not "inferior". It is a little strange that the dev is a moderator, I can certainly see the conflict of interest. A dev already has power to change how a game is played and it's actually their responsibility on a mechanical level to influence that rather than the meta level. That's my two cents.