if the zelda time loop theory is real then the wind waker trilogy exists outside of that loop. that’s the rule. you dont make a game about change and leaving ancient kingdoms and vicious cycles buried so that you can make your own future because life is for the living, not for the dead to enforce their own ways and dig up old conflicts and mistakes, and make two more games as direct sequels to that game that enforce that message by having entirely new threats with heroes who truly could have been anybody, just so you can undermine those three games who worked their butts off to break away from the loop by roping them right back into it. eternally.