It's the year 2013, we're using a newfangled device called a com-pu-ter, and it's stupid not to let users save the damn game if they want to, in the pursuit of some bogus misguided attempt at authenticity. It's absolutely pointless, senseless and without merit. In real life if you want to set a record, and you'll be playing for hours, nothing on any machine I know of stops you from walking away to eat, or sleep, or use the bathroom.
And a lot of us refuse to use the hibernate feature, for many good reasons.
There is more than one way for the programmers to eliminate "save spamming" in pursuit of a record. For normal play there's no reason to NOT have as many save states as the player desires.