Sadly yes, but primarily because of how misused, misunderstood, and misinterpreted it was, with people constantly asking the Ask Vector Prime Facebook what universe XYZ character was from, in an attempt to net more stream designations, when that wasn't how the system was supposed to work at all...
From watching the Hasbro Pulse livestreams and reading designer commentaries posted to Instagram, I get the feeling that the likes of Evan, Mark, and BMac seem to understand the fandom's interpretation of character and continuity better than most other Hasbro higher ups, as they have referenced...
Well, as the old saying goes, "You're as old as your tongue... but a little older than your teeth." :p
Or rather, "You're only as old as you feel inside..." ;)
And with Rescue Bots's four seasons taking place concurrent to all three seasons of Prime and the first season of RID 2015, its depiction of Optimus and Bumblebee meant that the bodies they had in all three shows were actually the same body just viewed through a different lens.
In other words...
Having gotten to speak to Aaron Archer earlier this year at BotCon, I found out the real-world reason why it was so easy for us fans to use continuity families before Aligned came along. We already knew that, back then, Archer was basically the guy in charge of Transformers at Hasbro, and that...
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