I think the folks who are applauding the halting of AK Speed Runs are just as clueless as the developers who always believe that gamers will play the game as they believed it was intended to play.

Game Design 101: players will always find ways to break, circumvent, or speed up past artificial processes that slow progression.

Last but not least, there's a correlation between the players vehemently cheering for the clearing of all trash in AK and other dungeons and the gear that they're wearing (checking it through the Lodestone): still wearing grey items; L28 rings and amulets; and a general lack of focus on stat itemization. For those people, the importance of clearing trash is reflected through their incompetence to care about what's important character-wise.

Their lack of experience and knowledge with the efficiency and results provided from speed runs only exacerbates and reveals their ignorance.