It's nothing more than Blizzard making a flimsy excuse for their typical sloppy bullshit writing that caused them to retcon the chronicle already. Had Chronicles not been retconned, the question about whether Chronicles remain canon or not wouldn't need to have been asked in the first place.
But we're not in the past of Warcraft so what was there to surprise us? And Chronicles didn't explain Shadowlands and the like because Blizzard didn't figure out what they want its story to be yet. That doesn't warrant "must have been the Titans" conclusion any more than pyramids existing warrants "must have been aliens" conclusion.
So do all Warcraft books ruin your immersion? Because they have an omniscient narrator.
Because either something goes all the way to a Ponzi scheme or it isn't a scam at all. Yeah, no. Blizzard retroactively made their own presentation of Chronicles false advertising.
And what was surprising about that given how Blizzard itself advertised it as codification of lore, the definite source for lore and even flat out likened it to the Bible in terms of its canon status? None of that even remotely hints at "lel, it's an unreliable narration of the Titans, please don't pay attention to what we've already retconned from these books".
"People are hanging way too much onto the words that changed the Chronicles into a piece of writing tainted by an unreliable narration, which stands in direct conflict with what they were advertised as." Huh, I never would have imagined that not bending over for corporations engaging in false advertising constitutes "handing too much on something".
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Goldielocks said that
this was the reason why? Not really.
That's not even remotely close to how narration works. A book written by some omniscient narrator
is the objective truth for a given imaginary setting.
Yeah, no. If one has to read between the lines of Chronicles then it's not definite anything.
But no one asked that. The question wasn't about the PoV of Chronicles, it was whether it's still canon or not. Which had to be asked because Blizzard already retconned parts of it. This whole "oh, but we didn't tell you the PoV before" came from Blizzard and is nothing more than a sloppy excuse for those retcons that made the question necessary.
Except for the part where in no way, shape or form is it even remotely true. It's not like Blizzard didn't have access to the Chronicle. If for once in their life their writers spent some effort they could have checked it whenever they wanted if they had to make sure they are making a consistent story. And no matter what people
flimsily valiantly excusing Blizzard's blatant horseshit want to pretend, the concept of consistency isn't some impossible dream.
And even that aside, none of what you said actually excuses Blizzard. If "changing stuff was inevitable" for some magical reason you made up, nothing forced them to present the Chronicles the way they did. Or wait, was that also "inevitable"?