telling people to pretend Trails does not exist and to ignore them goes a little far

It doesn’t go far enough, I think. These games should be laughed at and used as examples of what not to do.

I personally liked them better than Zero and Azure.

You are objectively wrong (although after thinking about it some more yesterday, Azure is now also on my Trails-shitlist).

Nobody should play Sky FC and think “that wasn’t very good, and the final act was garbage, but there are like a dozen more of these games, they have to get good eventually. Maybe the great world building I’ve heard so much about kicks in at some point.” NO! You can still turn back!

Nobody should get hope after playing Zero that the series might finally be on the up and up, and not hot trash. You will be disappointed!

Nobody should be like me, be literally held at gunpoint to eventually play the rest of the games, because of the hundreds of hours, that I’ve already wasted on this abomination of a video game series.