: Well you already said the problem-- they already have people whose main job
: at the moment is to explain everything canonically. I think that's a noble
: goal but somewhat misguided in its application. I also think you're being
: a bit presumptuous and, well, also misguided, about what no one will
: believe. They're delivering this canon fodder information in a pretty
: out-of-universe way and they're not claiming the lore came first, the
: point is clearly to make things fit and then explain to everyone how they
: fit. I think you should be taking issue with the designers that give them
: nigh-impossible things to explain or the managers who said everything is
: canon now.

I wish that just for once, they made an armor design where they went lore first and art second. Like, they recognized a niche that's missing an armor set and then the writers and artists put some thought together into how that armor set might look like. Even if it's for eating snails in freefall.