Believe me, /u/RoNPlayer, if there were ever a canonicity defender who knew as much as you and I did about the lore, the tenor of these conversations would be vastly different. It’s not just that we have an irreconcilable difference of opinion. It’s that we, the veterans of /r/memes, BGSF, #memospore and the like, are vastly better informed on the nature of sources, unreliable narrators, and the history of Michael Kirkbride’s involvement with Bethesda than the people (seemingly! I haven’t seen any evidence to the contrary!) we are arguing against who attempt to insist upon canonicity. Really, just look at any recent BGSF thread where this is brought up - a dozen anti-canon experts post intricate, essay-length explanations while the two or three canon-advocates seemingly don’t process, understand, or engage with any of the evidence, and just retreat to petulant complaining. I don’t even approach this as a matter of philosophy. There’s simply a knowledge deficiency on one side of this that turns the whole thing into a farce. It’s not elitism to recognize the truth that we ARE the elites, people who debate the intricacies of lore on BGSF or /r/dankmemes or TIL, and among our number there are vanishingly few people who have ever mounted a sustained defense of canonicity in the Elder Scrolls, while the vast majority of us who DO wade into these debates attack the concept. Because a defense can’t really be made in good faith by a scholar as informed as we are. Anyone who looks at the preponderance of evidence with an open mind knows this. At this point the only people left arguing against it are the willfully and aggressively ignorant.