[Pizza69]

Saying allowing higher rates would cheapen the achievement of getting PianoCore/Game Genie/whatever isn't a good argument. Even with higher rates, it's still going to take a long time to play every song, particularly if you're going for AAAs, and I wouldn't exactly call slogging through that endless queue of 4-minute-long snoozefest low-level rock songs "character building".

There are maybe 20 songs of difficulty <70 I haven't AAA'd, and that's a project I've chipped away at off and on for a couple of years, never spending too much time on in one sitting so I wouldn't burn myself out or start to find it unenjoyable. Allowing higher rates would preserve the spirit of the endeavor while letting everyone pick their own pace at which to go through it, and allowing the purists to play everything at 1.0 still.