When are American fans going to realize that Nintendo doesn't LIKE The Legend of Zelda. The game performs extremely poorly in Japan. It's only big outside of Japan, and since the early 2000's the Zelda development team has been struggling to understand the Zelda fandom, because the preference in Japan for what makes a good game is very different from Western preferences. In Japan, lore is flavor, not core, and instead what makes a game great is whether or not the mechanics are new and well done. The "official timeline" is and has always been outright pand✅ering.