Pippa is so fucking zoomerbrained with video games and this Sonic talk is highlighting it. You're supposed to keep playing the game to get better at it, that's the point, speed is the reward for skilled gameplay. Sonic 1 had some arbitrary caps because it was kind of the transition between more traditional hop-and-bop platformers and what 2/3&K'd become, but even then if you know what you're doing you can get through levels quickly.