What is your preference? I've sunk 400 hours into this game with it off, so that's my preference. I think gyro could be useful for speed runs , but may not be needed.

Thoughts on this? Debating if I should relearn it for speed running.

Well the game is gyro by default so you would have to switch to stick which would take a couple seconds. I've only used gyro and all the top runners do so as well, but stick may work fine if you're used to it.

I wouldn't if you're doing ILs, but full runs keep it on.