I can't take seriously any arguments about respecting the lore in the same expansion that we're getting sexy Nier robots as one of the main attractions in the form of a 24-man raid series. It's completely possible to enjoy the lore and be enthralled/immersed by it while also recognizing that all lore decisions are arbitrary beyond whether or not the devs felt like doing it and, to a lesser degree, because people asked for it. Yoshi has admitted that one of the main reasons we're getting Viera at all is because we've asked for them for years. You may not like the way people ask for things, but outside of raw economic data (subbing and unsubbing) that doesn't really speak to the success or failure of any one feature in the game, this is how the Player-DevTeam relationship works.