There will always be hardware advantages involved in running. Loner's PC is running the game on the level of a PS4, so it isn't fair to him to combine boards, but he's the one suggesting it because the game goes by IGT. Some PCs even have advantages over other PCs. If you're going to argue about advantages, then your argument has to include us having to accept ties because RTA has clear hardware differences in it, even if it's just by seconds. Let's also look at IGT vs RTA discrepancies across the board.
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Sure you can look at Rayden and say, "Well a 3rd place time on console is a 9th place time here!" but then you look at the difference between him and the next PS4 guy (Cool) and their IGT difference is 4m, so it makes sense. Cool, there's no one on this board that wouldn't "deserve" to be in the spot they're at. this is what the board would look like with a merged leaderboard.
If you want an example of a game where that's truly the case and separating was mandatory, look at Devil May Cry 5.
But what I'm also saying is that in the end there is still plenty of competition to be had despite this, similar to Devil May Cry's leaderboards, where 3 of the top 10 (and 1 of the top 3) times are consoles times, because again, the difference isn't even to make this wholly pay2win. I'm acknowledging that there's a difference and PC will have an advantage. Then you're not understanding the point of my post.