The point isn’t that he made a TAS that was faster than the record. The point is that he single handedly created the ability to TAS the game directly on console. This was a demonstration of brand new tools that he devoted his time to and is releasing to the community for free.

Going by developer intention is something we try to avoid at all costs. For example, lets say the devs place a platform slightly wrong and didn’t realize in play-testing that you could jump to it. Literally just jumping and you barely make it. Now all of a sudden you’ve skipped a lot of otherwise mandatory content,…

Our goal is not to experience the game Ocarina of Time. We have made a game within the confines of OoT with our own rules. And to win that game you must reach the credits by whatever means are available to us within OoT. It’s sort of like criticizing professional mountain climbers for not enjoying the scenery along…