>>10074880The UT toyline/premises were planned out by Aaron Archer with Takara engineers. The animes were done outside of Takara and largely did their own thing. For example, Hoist wasn't supposed to be Smokescreen's upgrade, but his replacement.
So it depends what you give priority to. For some reason people seem to treat Galaxy Force as coming before the toyline conceptually and kowtow to that, but it was meant to adapt the toyline Hasbro planned out.