Welp, I suppose it's never too early to kick off a multi-page argument.
What's the point of this category on this site? I'm sure it's an impressive technical achievement, but is "no doors" really non-arbitrary enough
as a category* to publish here? Let's look back at the judgement of
this Super Metroid TAS: "...but here on TASVideos we can only publish the categories that we deem interesting and entertaining enough..." What does this have over any other interesting (yet ultimately arbitrary) OoT category? Aside from "less doors", I mean.
*Emphasized strictly to avoid meaningless discussions where people miss the point of what "arbitrary" means in regards to publication categories.
Let's also look back at
this more relevant TAS, where a lot of the audience feedback was indeed "I thought this was really entertaining, but not worth being published due to the category". So should the audience feedback even play into whether or not the category is publish-worthy? I can already guess that a lot of the people watching are simply going to vote yes because it's OoT, and taking that into account, I already know it's going to be passed around like a blunt at a greasy college party regardless of whether or not it's accepted by the site. So is there a benefit to publication?
I gave the video a quick skim and as far as I could tell it's just the same stuff as the any% but done in different places, so judging purely from my quick skim of the encode I don't see this as unique/interesting enough to be published alongside the current runs. I'm refraining from voting, but I'd personally rather see a much more varied category be published than something that appears to just be 10 extra minutes of avoiding doors using the exact same methods. In terms of this site, I'm against publication.
However, in terms of the TAS itself: I'm glad it exists, just as I'm glad the Super Metroid "100% Map Completion" run exists. I could never fault someone for putting effort into any piece of work. Something like this could lead to even greater TASes down the line, whether it be from tricks adapted to an any% or 100% category or the author using their experience to tackle another run. I don't intend to stifle the creation of any TAS. Not at all. I'd just rather not see this site (and only this site) become saturated with brand new categories that won't ever have any competition.