The first two reasons are evidence that the code DOES change the run. Not the content, but the attributes. Someone without AR and someone with AR aren't running the same KIND of run. One of them is fighting RNG, the other is fighting only their execution.

Are people using the "c-stick in single player" code as well? What the hell happened since I left the speedrunning community that people don't think of external modifications to the game as cheating?