If you had taken a look at the top pinned thread here in the forum or at the category rules, you'd know that below a certain time (any time in ILs), people are required to post a VOD, and plenty of people add VODs even when they are not required, so moderation still happens on the board.

The reason we have taken this route is because Hotline is horribly optimised on PCs, the game is pretty popular with speedrun beginners, with young people and with people from outside EU/NA, which means that a large part of submissions are from people who lack the know-how and/or the hardware to record their speedruns, and also most of them only do a couple of runs in their life. We do not expect these people to get a grip on OBS or buy a new computer, if they aren't going for competitive times.

speedrun.com leaderboard settings also disappointingly binary. We can only turn on/off verification for the entire board, not for certain categories or certain time thresholds, so we went the route of just auto-verifying everything and then cleaning up behind them.

If our leaderboard moderation style bothers you to the point that you do not want to play the videogame, I invite you just look for one of the many games, that value gatekeeping higher than helping people enjoy the game. https://speedrun.com/randomgame