A lot of it is also directly addressed and explored, or lampshaded at worse, in multiple movies. 9 is nonsense and 10 is ridiculously reaching.

That’s not how the “soul of the hero” thing works, they’re different people who live and die, and also obviously Nintendo doesn’t end a game with the hero drowning to his death in the middle of the ocean, come on.

The first version of the timeline had LA before correction: after Oracles, then they changed it. I’d bet it was because people were saying “this means that Link dies at the end of LA, because he’s shipwrecked in the middle of nowhere” and Nintendo didn’t like that so they said you know what, no, here’s the proof that he doesn’t die, the Oracle games happen after.

Son Gokuu is the Japanese reading of the name Sun Wukong.