When has Nintendo ever had good writers? Nintendo isn't paying a room full of writers to sit around, cooking up some elaborate fictional universe with an intricately detailed chronology. That takes years if you do it right (look at Tolkien), and that's not how video game fiction is created.
Each time they start creating a new Zelda, they just toss in a couple of super vague references/callbacks to other games in the series, just to keep fans happy. This timeline is a retcon, and doesn't seem any more valid than fan timelines, and it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo forgets about this and accidentally invalidates this particular timeline within a game or two.
I still just don't get why an overall timeline matters to people. Continuity is pretty much the lowest priority in that series. Knowing how the games are ordered doesn't really inform you in any meaningful way. Each game works quite well on its own, and fills you in on enough fiction that things make sense. Even the obvious sequels (Majora's Mask to Ocarina of Time) don't really build on what was in the previous game. You could start literally anywhere in the series, and do just fine.
The series isn't going anywhere in particular. It's not going to have any final battle, anymore than Batman is ever going to suddenly conclude and just go out of print.
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