the minish leaving rupees in grass isn't anything compared to all that, it's one thing for a game to retcon or give weird context to something already established, TotK tries to say that it's weird elements were in the background throughout the entire franchise
these aren't revelations...
holy cow I didn't say it was a reboot, I said it feels like they wanted to reboot it
which they perfectly did in a soft sense (NOT literally) by making botw far removed from the other games, yet in this one they went back and spray painted on past lore
ganondorf was around the whole time, the...
on the other hand, FSA obviously wasn't meant to take place after TP and was just placed there b/c...I don't know, where else?
not to mention that's only 1 game skip, a race being completely nonexistent for 10 whole games only to suddenly be very important in this one, and we're supposed to...
I think the existence of a whole race (rito) might not sit right w/ that 2nd paragraph
so they somehow came to be after SS for that imprisoning scuffle to happen, only to completely disappear (die off?) before MC happened, and just have zero presence in every downfall zelda game until they just...
well firstly you can play it single player, and secondly it's 2-4 people, not 4 people exactly
and 3rd it's learned from the gerudo that ganondorf was born in this version
if there's one thing I dislike more than naming a totally different character the same name as a previous important character, it's naming a freaking EVENT the same name as a previous important one