There's been a lot to unpack here, and I kept meaning to reply to specific posts now and then, but am only just now getting around to it. So yall get a wall of text instead. Enjoy.
There are obvious connections between the Zelda games written into them to begin with, and to dispute that on any...
It's a different timeline and a different world that was created by the time-travelling guardian. Hence the mismatched histories. It can certainly be considered canon and there isn't anything that conflicts with that, plot-wise. As for official word, there hasn't been any. The Zelda team oversaw...