I am kinda temped to say that using the glitch is valid if it only resets the first room since the first room doesn't have a lot of speedrun potetial anyways but i am split on this since using that glicht probably doesn't take any skill.
BTW thank you for playing this game, it means a lot to me to see people play through my games multiple times. If you have any feedback or ideas how to expand this game (in case i want to revisit this game) you are open to share those.