>>44549641> The alternate realities cleanly facilitates the different releases and versions of games that take place in the same region, right?Yes, but they only used that 3 times.
>The more that we get, the more variations on each one that we have, the more the list of continuities grows, and the less neatly we can link them together.Not really, as the different versions of each game represent a similar group of events and the way they connect to each other is mostly constant.
Only Cynthia alluding to Giratina and Wally in Battle tree are inconsistencies with this, and they're both small details.
>just that we don't have a clear through line like we used to think that we did.Yes we do, you just want it to not be clear because the facts contradict the youtube headcanon you think is right.