So I've just caught up on the current lore of Overwatch and I have one overlying question. Did they rewrite everything in OW2 or just go back in time? Because last we left off in OW2 Null Sector was making major moves to take over the world and Ramattra was a huge threat but not a single bit of lore has even mentioned them since Overwatch 3 dropped. The new lore only mentions old characters as they relate to new characters.
I gave up on Overwatch as a lore driven game right after they announced that PvE wouldn't happen but it feels like they want us to ignore the lore from OW2 that they hid behind a paywall. I'm just curious if anyone else shares my questions, has answers, or knows if the devs have said to pretend OW2 didn't happen, especially since they decided to revert the game's name to OW instead of continuing with the naming convention and calling it OW3?