(Maybe then we could get away from the weirdness of having Urianger still delivering quests at the Rising Stones when the story has sent him elsewhere. I wonder if they could fix that that as part of the ARR restructure?)
I think when it comes to any sort of online game with an ongoing "timeline" of sorts, you pretty much have to accept that there will inevitably be some sort of timey-wimey weirdness going on, particularly if you do things out of release order, and the player pretty much just has to try to suspend their disbelief in order for it to "work"

I mean, just look at how many copies of Gerolt we have out there. Dude's gonna get more fractured than the WoL at the rate he's going.