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yes the Hive lore has been butchered completely, along with the rest
you already mentioned it but it started with WQ and their origin being retconned completely and them being made into victims who were bamboozled by the Witness, then the absolute nonsense with Ahsa existing and everything else about her, then Witch making Xivu Arath the Hive god of war into a scared little girl desperate for the Sword Logic to be true (as if it could be false in the first place), and then there was Heresy which just raped what was left of the already desecrated corpse of Hive lore with it's nonsensical and contradictory timeline of events, schizophrenic treatment of the Echo, and shitting all over the Books of Sorrow while also drawing from them constantly
the rest of the setting went through a similar treatment
and i think that even if they did asspull Taox, it would've been less of an asspull than the Shitness, because Taox actually exists