If you hang the draws, it's a pinkpoint.

Connecting pinkpoint to sport climbing = noob trying to make sense of the 5.12 and up world based on their 5.8 experience.

In sport climbing, redpointing is free-climbing a route, while lead climbing, after having practiced the route beforehand (either by hangdogging or top roping).[1] Many climbers will frequently try to redpoint a route after having failed to on-sight or flash it, although occasionally a climber will forgo an onsight attempt if they suspect that the route is so difficult that an attempt would be pointless.[1] Redpointing differs from headpoint, in that it is exclusive to sport routes with protection equipment fixed into the rock at regular intervals.

The English term "redpoint" is derived from the German Rotpunkt (point of red) coined by Kurt Albert in the mid-1970s at Frankenjura. He would paint a red X on a fixed pin that he could avoid using for a foot- or handhold. Once he was able to free-climb the entire route, he would put a red dot at the base of the route. In many ways, this was the origin of the free climbing movement that led to the development of sport climbing ten years later.

Modern sport climbing ethics do not consider it a redpoint if one successfully climbs a route on toprope without using or weighting the gear or rope, though leading with preplaced quickdraws is typically allowed, even in international climbing competitions. Free-climbing while leading with preplaced quickdraws is sometimes referred to as a pinkpoint.[2]

Traditional climbers sometimes use a variant of the term, greenpoint, to describe leading a sport climb using only natural protection, i.e. without using preplaced bolts or pins.[3]

In climbing, a pinkpoint is similar to a redpoint. To obtain or accomplish a pinkpoint, the climber must climb the route from the start, leading while clipping the rope into previously placed quickdraws as they go to the top, without falling or hanging on the rope. This differs from on-sighting a climb or flashing a climb in that a pinkpoint can be attempted as many times as needed, so long as it is climbed from the start without falling or hanging.

A pinkpoint differs from a redpoint in that quickdraws are already in place on the bolts along the climb. This style was first created for practical reasons. It proved very difficult to remove all runners on an overhanging route after every attempt so they were just left in place for the next climber. On bolted routes using pre-placed quickdraws is commonly accepted today, however, some climbers argue that a 'true' redpoint where quickdraws are placed while climbing represents a more difficult climb. For traditional routes protected with removable gear (nuts, friends...) only a real red-point (including the placement of gear, which often adds to the difficulty) is generally recognized as a successful ascent.

So in certain circumstances, a top rope is harder than a lead? Should that be celebrated?

And what about in those other circumstances where it is possible/easier?

even sport climbers still use the term "top-rope"

Alpa, I'd like to mention that I fail to see where a TR would be harder than leading? Surely you don't mean it makes the actual climbing harder? Just that it makes the logistic of setting everything up harder correct?

Not disagreeing that it can certainly be more dangerous on steep or traversing routes.

The preceding statement was based on ego, not logic

he rope often tugs you and throws your balance/climbing off, and can get in the way of holds where a lead rope would not do so.

Isn't it fun to have an actual discussion about climbing however?