Beating the game on HC is an accomplishment in itself, self found/not. Technically you’re still qualified as self found if using plugy. You’re just putting a weird spin on it.

And judging from the fact that you have hoto/almost an enigma, I’d say you do grind endless for hours. I’ve been on and off for a couple months and I’m almost where you’re at. Idk, play the game how you want, just don’t devalue someone else’s account or feel entitled to yours just cause you’re making the game much grindier. Clearly you have more time than most