>>53955252>>53955359I'd rather be a "casual" and hack in candies and inmediately continue the fun part of the run than spend hours watching paint dry while at the same time having to make sure no mistakes are made. Playing with candies and level caps is acceptable and it sometimes can arguably leave you in a worse position than if you grind, because you get no EVs, which are not needed in vanilla games anyway.
It's all a fanfic anyway, it's not like there are any rules set in stone past the original three. Some of us like grinding, some of us don't. And I say all this having played lots of runs on original hardware and having grinded like hell.