fandoms purists have never watched doctor who and it SHOWS
These people haven't been hardened by a media property where half of the writers hate the other half's ideas and they duke it out with the shows cannon, there's a third half of the writers that ignore the rest and just do whatever they want anyway. And they've been doing this for 50+ years. The main characters home planet has been destroyed at least four times possibly more, there are entire spinoffs based on breaking cannon, the current show runner was basically killed in effigy on the show in the 7th doctors run (30+ years before he took the role lmao), the main characters backstory has been changed so much so often that one writer made an entire book to explain why it doesn't matter. IN 1999. We're simply on another level
Doctor Who is the long running comic book serial of shows and that is my hill
This is helped by the several actual long running comic book serials it has spawned (it's technically a part of the marvel universe because of this, or at least it was when those comics came out)
Doctor Dolittle taught me tie-ins aren’t canon in 1969.
Doctor Who has been teaching me there’s no such thing as canon since 1981.