So yeah this is a thing

we don't really get a sense of how time passes in Quadratum compared to the main KH-verse, but the Missing-Link leaked opening and what we know of the game suggests the intention is that this has been happening at the very least since then - and Sora showing up might have made it worse

(given it's implied Ava has been here this whole time, Dandelion Dispatch might have been setup by her?)

but this raises the question of how Yozora factors into all this, and why he has a weapon that can incorporate a Keyblade (i had originally assumed it was capable of incorporating potentially any weapons, but these new revelations suggest to me it's specifically for Keyblades), like is he part of this military that works alongside the Dandelions, with a specialised tool designed to incorporate a Keyblade in an emergency and use its abilities, bypassing that he's not one of the Keyblade's chosen? or is he part of a faction that is against the Dandelions and wants them gone because of the effects their influence is having on his world? (is that why he's wearing a patch with a skull and crossed keyblades?)

and then how is Luxord factoring into this, we know he works under Yozora, but we don't know if he's from Quadratum or if he originates from the KH-verse (presumably as a contemporary of Sigurd) - we know he's tied to the "ancient Keyblade legacy" or whatever somehow, but does that mean he's actually a Wielder, or is it his involvement here going up against Wielders - did he lose his heart on this side of things, and because Quadratum works differently, his body was transported through into the main KH-verse to become a Nobody?

well yeah, it's always from people who have zero experience in or knowledge of show production (it's very easy to go "well why not have this, that and this here" as an armchair fic writer who isn't having to worry about managing budget and resources and production times), and have conflated "i didn't get what i want out of the show" with "bad writing"; and because they don't pay attention to what the show is actually doing or saying, they completely fall flat on narrative and thematic standpoints

on top of that, a concerning number of them tout themselves as 'better' than the source material - without the self-awareness to acknowledge that they are a) not having to worry about whether or not their 'rewrites' would be feasible to actually make within the budgets of each volume, b) working with the benefit of hindsight that the people in production didn't have and c) aren't having to make all of this up wholesale - every 'rewrite' is using the original characters, lore, and narrative as a framework that they are building their thing off of, so they didn't have to really do any of the hard work with worldbuilding or anything, and often completely fall flat without the original context of the story they are spitefully claiming to be making better (the most infamous of these spite fics is literally a guy narrating what happens and often just going 'yeah that scene plays out the same as in the source material', which is about as interesting as 'then my favourite character gives a witty one-liner" and "a man does a thing")

"which game are they adapting? is it going to be canon?"

and one that said "I'm glad they're adapting it because they can strip back the convolutedness of the series"

and it's just like

this is kind of microcosming the problem of people not paying attention and then condemning the series for it

the announcement posts all make it very clear that it isn't an adaptation of any of the games and that the show will be set within the universe of the games

not only that, but the character in the key art clearly isn't Sora - it's not not any of his outfits, not his Keyblade, not his hairstyle

all easily available information that would've been attained by paying attention and looking into it for more than two seconds

and that lack of paying attention is why detractors pin the series as being "overly convoluted" when it isn't - layered and complex, certainly, but it's all easy to understand and makes sense, and every game adds onto the story and the lore in a sort of modular way where every thing leads into the next thing

the games are a story that's meant to be experienced in order so you have the next thing

hopping into the fourth book in a series, turning to page 97 and then complaining that it doesn't make any sense isn't the fault of the creator, that's very much a you problem (and there genuinely were people who hopped in on KH3 with zero experience with the series beforehand and complained that it didn't make sense as if that's the game's fault - and the excuse was always "well I'm not gonna buy 8 different consoles just to experience the full story" as if the HD collections of all the games prior to 3 barring the mobile titles hadn't been available even before KH3 came out)

now, there is the problem of lore reveals and information being in the mobile games that are no longer available, however I'm fairly sure that either those stories will be made available in some form or another (either by remaking them as solo titles, like Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is being remade into Final Fantasy Resonance, or some other method - like how 358/2 Days and Re:Coded weren't remade for consoles for the HD collections but instead remade as cutscene movies), or that the information necessary from them will be reconveyed as the new games unfold, especially as none of our main characters were there for that information being revealed in the mobile games due to those games happening decades to centuries prior