Speed-run QoL

Hello!

I'm a nobody when it comes to Path of Exile (less than 5 years played across 1 and 2), and my experience with speedrunning, particularly with PoE is limited - The most experience with Speedrunning I have is participating in speed running leagues for A Link to The Past Randomizer (I suppose that ages me as well XD).

I have recently really enjoyed watching and participating in races, and I have been prepping league start and loved doing runs of the campaign specifically to reduce my time.

I have noticed some things that would really improve quality of life. These are hardly exhaustive, but I mention them in hopes of them potentially creating a fun new 'market' that could keep leagues fresh throughout a cycle:

1.) The ability to create a race in game with a designated length OUTSIDE of ordained races:

Anyone could create a race that could run from a 1 act race, up to a campaign length, or even map tier race. This could be public or private. If public, it could be displayed in a menu on the character creation screen. If server load is a problem, you could make so that it costs points to create or run. As an addition, there could be stakes that players could put up as prizes (ante's to enter?), up to and including in game items, MTX, or even points.

2.) Caster Tools:

I am sure Crimson would love this, but allow a backend UI for casters to connect to within these designated races that would allow them to 'plug in' and look at any participants items, inventory etc.

3.) Race leagues:

Individual race events are fun, but what about full length season long leagues. This would likely take a GGG manager, so costs are understood to be a barrier, but I do feel that there is enough demand that people would watch, and it would spread positive publicity for the game.

4.) Restriction based races:

Have races that could restrict certain aspects of the game. For example, enable or disable certain builds/gems, remove or modify certain currencies drop rates, include challenges, etc. This could double as a testing ground for GGG to see what campaign is like with specific changes as well.

5.) A specific character creation category - speed run

It can be a pain to need to migrate characters simply to have a run environment character, especially if you are trying to play a character for a specific reason in SSF, and dont want to migrate your league characters. At worst this would generate another reason for players to buy more character slots, which is a win for GGG.

I'm sure that many of these will get shot down for some more thoughtful person's valid reasons, but I wanted to at least start a discussion of having more formal QoL for this niche put into the game *fingers crossed*