as someone who has never looked twice at a nintendo game: why would they NOT be cool with "challenge runs"?
because they're fucking dinosaurs who don't understand their own audience and might be dumb enough to misinterpret a named style of challenge run as something that requires a hack to do
as a company they keep making decisions that enforce a certain way to play as if they know better than their own audience
here's an example: in the old games there was an item called EXP share that automatically split the EXP from each fight among your entire party, you earned it a ways into the game and didn't have to use it
as the games went on you got it earlier and earlier
in 2013 it more-or-less became part of the options menu and the EXP was not even split, you got more than would normally be possible, though you could still turn off if you wanted
in 2018 you could no longer turn it off
literally removing options and mandatory making the game easier, it's no wonder they might be against attempts to make the game harder and more interesting
