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The problem is that Nanoha evolved, or devolved if you wish, along the magical girl genre. S1 wasn't so different from the typical stuff little girls watched back then but something was off for pandering to male otakus instead of little girls. It's even established a love triangle between Yuuno and Chrono compiting for Nanoha, even if it never gets focus for again pandering to male otakus. Things started to change in A's by erasing the love triangle and instead making Yuuno into Nanoha's simp. That wasn't so different from female lead shows for otakus at the time, Nanoha/Yuuno was a foregone conclusion but the show wasn't going to focus on that. StrikerS introduced more waifus but Yuuno was still there as an option for the otakus who wanted to self-insert as him but the industry changed in the 00s with the rise of CGDCT and secluded all-female worlds full of waifus. Nanoha followed the trends and Yuuno was erased. Basically it's a retcon over another retcon