Item duping the flame in particular feels contrary to the whole sprite of sl1 for me. Sl1 is about beating the game as an underpowered character, and 1 shot-ing the gargoyles in a speedrun feels off. Its a fine category, but it would be nice if we also had a glitchless category for sl1

Reading back on a previous answer to this same question, I am aware that upgrading the flame is a normal part of a non-speedrun sl1 run. Its just that duping and wrong warp both take the interest out of doing sl1 runs for me personally, and I and several others on this forum seem interested in a SL1 glitchless category.

Is there anything we can do to make you reconsider mods? Or are you pretty decided that you dont think there is enough interest?

You're allowed to run glitchless sl1 without there being an official category. Please don't start spamming the forums when you can leave two quick messages on the SpeedSouls discord server: https://discord.gg/Speedsouls

If you want to challenge yourself with glitchless sl1, you don't have to have a leaderboard with people on it. Do whatever category comes to your mind, but don't feel like you have to ask for there to be a new category for a game that already has its categories set in stone :)

As explained in the other thread, for the leaderboards interest isn't measured in potential interest, it's measured in runs submitted, and as far as I know only one sl1 glitchless run has been submitted (the all bosses by Barker). Find ten people to run, have them submit, and you might have your category.