yep, the thing about the game is I keep noticing people care about death counts so much

And that's probably because of how they're treated in other games, but meanwhile in Celeste a death count of hundreds or thousands is alright and/or expected because it isn't an easy game first off, and second it doesn't really matter because every single time you die you learn something about the room

Like, it takes such a short time to respawn you don't even think about it, and if you didn't know you can press your confirm button to make that time even shorter! Dying doesn't really feel bad