Chronicles was marketed as a sort of knowledge base of the Warcraft Universe.
Them saying that this is now "just the titans recounting of stuff that happened" devalues the books immensely as everything in the book is now subjective and not, as the book's own description states:
Also, Matt Burns explained this back in 2015: https://twitter.com/Burnzerker/statu...15064769998849This definitive tome of Warcraft history reveals untold stories about the birth of the cosmos, the rise of ancient empires, and the forces that shaped the world of Azeroth and its people.
The authors are retconning themselves