As a fan of the game, this is an easy No vote for me. It's true that there are only two shield configurations, but this is certainly not the whole game. It's not like those levels just repeat forever! Gameplay changes at 70,000, 150,000, and 230,000 points. There are levels with no neutral zone.
This video is infinitely more entertaining to me.
Watch how this guy leads the Swirl into his Zorlon Cannon once it gets to the point where the Swirl makes a second attack. There are a couple of points in the game where he has so many TRONS that he's able to hit the Swirl off the bat in five to ten levels in a row, grabbing the full 6000 points and an extra life. There are a few places where he even bounces the Zorlon Cannon off the shield and hits the Swirl on the rebound! TAS videos are supposed to show off skill -- well this guy is showing off SKILL.
If you want to really play through all of the levels, you have to at least beat a level after 230,000 points. It would take the better part of 160 levels to do a fastest to 999,999 video, and I don't know if it would stay entertaining for that long since the gameplay stops changing after 230,000 points, other than some levels having the Neutral Zone and other not having it. I think the two runs you could definitely do for this game are a "100%" run that shows all of the levels before the infinite gameplay loop after 230,000, and an Any% that gets to fastest "Game Over" by activating the Easter Egg as fast as possible. (The 230,000 point run should probably also terminate by getting the Easter Egg).
BTW, Game 6 (Ultimate Yars) should actually be faster, since you don't have to bother cutting a path through the shield. Within a second, the Qotile will come to you!