No matter how you approach 1 ball, 2 @ 43 off is still going to be 2 @ 43 off and it's going to take some insane skiing to beat it. Nate or Chris or Will or ??? will beat it eventually with or without the gate rule. You could make the same argument that there should be a distinction from records run on a fiberglass ski instead of wood, and a carbon ski instead of fiberglass, and behind perfect pass instead of hand throttle, and behind Zero Off instead of Perfect Pass and smaller buoy sizes instead of larger buoys, and 55 meter buoys instead of no 55 meter buoys, and man made lakes instead of public lakes. Does that mean we shouldn't have allowed those changes? That's the problem with records in any sport, you can't keep the same constants forever and since 99.9% of skiers will never be chasing those records, we shouldn't base our decisions around them if something could better the overall sport.