"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[SturmChurro]

I found it very engaging and it quite honestly put things into perspective for me.

I was me in mind but not in body, and thus I could feel the weight of what I was doing. Overall it wasnt hard (I finished it in 13 minutes my first try, and I am most definitely going to keep doing it using NG+ ASAP because I want to whittle that number down.) But it was annoying in all the right ways.

I don't see this. The timer is there just to give you a false sense of urgency. They give you way more time than is necessary, in an overly large area with a bunch of (literal) junk in the way, to try and obfuscate the singular correct path, and it relies on finding things - in order. I see no reason to even try to beat a previous time on a mission. After the illusion is broken, it's just another scripted story mission.