Here’s what happened:

• we were down to two levels: the last dance and trimming the herbs
• last dance is cleared
• hundreds of thousands of attempts are made at trimming the herbs
• the original level designer breaks down and publicly admits he had beaten it by connecting an arduino to the controller. it was meant to be an experiment with getting TAS working, he didn’t anticipate this situation seven years later
• the community recategorizes trimming the herbs as illegitimate (alongside levels known to use glitches, which can become literally impossible once the glitches are patched), meaning the last dance was retroactively the final clear
• there’s a lot of disappointment because this means everyone missed their chance to celebrate the moment of the final clear, a cold and broken hallelujah sort of situation
• some absolute god proceeds to clear trimming the herbs anyway with mere hours left before the server shutdown

IMO it’s good. It’s not fair to anyone to pose a challenge under the premise “clearly at least one human beat this to validate the upload, therefore it’s definitely possible” when actually an arduino beat the level. It could very well have been literally humanly impossible. The fact that someone did manage to beat it anyway is just all the more beautiful in light of the knowledge that the level was designed to an arduino’s tolerances, not a human hand

If they didn't, it would have probably gotten beaten earlier, which would have made this less hype. So it all worked out in the end