Racing on twitch with Beyond Chaos

Honestly complaining for few switches i believe it's pointless, that's how the caves work: they're not made to find the shortest way, rather than explore, besides if you found monsters that defeat you in the first parts of the cave, maybe you should get some extra level and open more chests as well.

Large towns are big, but not that much annoying, besides they have chests inside and they are often a lot of chests(south figaro in particular)

The main point is that i believe here you're complaing because until now with narshe race you always tried to find the shortest pattern, do only what you need, skip all possible encounters, dodge the chests, etc: in other words you tried in all the ways to dodge randomization because it often slows the race; This time you can't do that, because the caves force you to deal with randomization, which is the real point of playing a randomizer.
On a side note when Abyss raced, i watched his run for most of the time because it was much more interesting, since he opened a lot of chests