I'd kind of assumed that it was another one of those understood rules that everyone was using Time Attack mode for everything, until I had a seemingly perfect Palmtree Panic 2 ring record toppled about an hour after setting it. After going back and reviewing all of the charts, other large gaps became obvious, like
Stardust Speedway 2.
I couldn't care either way, but something needs to be put down in the rules, as it's clear to me that the majority of Ring stats seem to have been set in Time Attack mode aside from a sparse few.
Pros of Time Warp- More interesting competition
- Tougher competition
Cons of Time Warp- Rules would need to allow Debugger level select, since regular level select is borked
- Non-PC version users would need to create a save at every level due to aforementioned borked level select: Time Warp after level select returns you to title screen