Traveller as an old game got a bucket of problems. One of them is a too massive canon. Fledging MgT authors may just be put off writing Traveller material as grognards will be as hawks raising a lot of noise over sometimes minor details. What Mongoose probably should have done from the start is to say OTU setting will be restarted and any changes that appear will be the new canon. TNE did this right by accellerate the setting forward and restart the campaign in a new era.

Another case is that Mongoose should have seperated setting details and rules more clearly. Now the rulebook contains 3I setting and other setting books are released seperately. As MgT was meant to support other settings too the Traveller rulebooks should have been released as rules only books and setting books should have been a seperate entity with setting  dependent rules for character generation designs and so on. But the error has been made and it will be too expensive to go back now.

What actually worries me more is that the flamewars about these finer details in canon puts people off Traveller and stiffles creativity. Over the years I have played Traveller I have been keeping myself to a CT setting, but has made some journeys into NE setting. However, now I am put off enough from both NE and CT settings for various reasons that I have decided to write my own backgroun from ground up using TNE rules and elements from OTU, mainly aliens so I can spare me some work.