Fandom acceptance is a funny old thing.
Disney just kitten on 30 years worth of Star Wars lore by saying NONE OF IT HAPPENED LALALALA so they could release Episodes 7-9 with a completely different story. For some of us who were Star Wars fans when it was really uncool to like Star Wars (for me that was the early '90s) they just totally said that the defining stories of our adolescence aren't canon. NOPE! They're "Legends" now. Yeah! That's the ticket!
It doesn't work like that. In my mind, the Zahn trilogy is canon forever, and everything else Disney will come up with is fanfiction.
That's why I have no problem wholly discounting chapter 699-700 and The Last, as well as any other kitten that SP and Kishimoto come out with in that timeline. The very fact that Kishi has all but admitted it was SP's idea to end NH invalidates it as canon in my mind.
Fan acceptance is hugely important to how some franchises proceed after a reboot. The Star Trek fandom is actually fairly uniform in accepting the original timeline as canon and all the cool new Star Trek stuff coming out as an alternate timeline (since that's how it was presented to us) so there is absolutely no cognitive dissonance. You pick the one you like better. Or you accept both as alternate universes, and play with the universe you like best.
And at the same time, fandoms can smell kitten a mile away and have no problems rejecting things that are clearly ass pulls.
Or, as the saying goes, there was no Terminator 3 movie.