That's so weird... I mean, I get that they're a spinoff series, but a spinoff series is still connected to the main series. (Plus there's this, which goes into the fun of alternate universes to connect all the games. And who doesn't love a good alternate universe?) And meh, even if they're not canonically connected, well, neither are most of the Final Fantasy games, but even the spinoffs are still considered Final Fantasies.

Fandom elitism is so strange...