Because in my opinion Erimgard and Hombre are just a little bit heavy handed on the trigger finger. Just go with it.

Edit:

It's funny, your timeline was the very first split timeline I ever saw, and it was with that timeline (basically) that I came to ZU with, but our paradigms are VERY different. The FS interview isn't really that much newer than this 1998 interview, and at last check that was the very basis of your 'classic games child timeline.'

If developer quotes are most definitely nerfed by new dev quotes or in game material, I have no problem putting them by the wayside, but I'm not so quick to throw away developer quotes just because of their relative age.

Technically, by your view you should put AlttP last in your timeline, because that would mean you have to believe that Myamoto's last AlttP placement was more canonical than his first (on the back of the box)

I still go by one of the oldest timeline placements that exist in the series, and so do you.

I'll post this now, but I may have more to say later.