And more importantly: Seeing as how this remaster behaves really as 1:1 as I've seen when it comes to the original 2010 game - is there a point?

It was discovered that the full game route is different so yes, there's also DLC cars not available on PC, etc.

and yes, they will be. soon™.

The game just came out and opening submissions immediately has been problematic for other games in the past while board mods work things out, we dont really want to deal with this so we are sorting things out before we open submissions. Expect an update in the next few days or so

leaderboard submissions are now open, locking thread