There really isn't a need for Easy if the time that stands in the category is worse than the Normal/Hard WRs.

A leaderboard isn't a necessity; people ran back in 2010 without leaderboards and managed just fine. Leaderboards are meant to make sense, and it makes no sense for a 2+ hr time to exist on a difficulty that is by all means at least several minutes faster than Normal difficulty; of which the current WR is 1:30:XX on GCN, 1:17:XX on PC.

Yeah. You lost me when you said Easy doesn't have an end time. Timing RTA for a category that will likely be dead in an already dead game doesnt make sense to me. If it had IGT like all other categories, you would have my vote.