I see everyone else be able to do it, and creating a new profile loses time

There used to be an option to replay the intro at any time from the level select menu, but they changed it in 2022(?)

I've tried a run with / without the intro back when this change was implemented, and I think we just run without the intro now.

Running with the intro loses you a LOT of time, because you keep unlocking outfits and items.

yeah its fine to run without the intro, it's not that game-shattering of a time loss to worry about it