I understand why they want save editing but I’m on the boat of it kills the spirit of the game and category. If you can edit your saves then someone else with a different save who plays your seed will get an entirely different run when the original point of the gauntlet was full parity on any seed even at random. This also ruins every previous run and record set as they are practically power crept by outside of game and non skill optimization.

As these runs are also meant to be played at the base games hardest difficulty lowering the rng in a rogue-like who’s only gameplay loop is rng feels against the spirit of the game to me as it makes every run significantly easier if the “bad” items are gone entirely and you have a higher chance of getting optimal damage so there is less punishment for things like greed and unoptimized looting in gameplay.