I feel like Xenoblade Genesis is going to be an intermission between Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and 4.

Xenoblade Genesis is looking like a large departure from the usual Xenoblade game. Which got me thinking that what if it is essentially acting as an intermission between the klaus saga and the next set of stories. Just because the klaus saga started before they really knew they were making it into a trilogy and thus had to make some retcons to fit xenoblade 2 and 3 in with the first game. So now they can focus on telling a fresh new trilogy from scratch and are using genesis as a means to help set up the next story line, possibly with the return of the conduit in some multiversal way. Just because it feels like the story and world post xenoblade 3 will continue even if everything around klaus has now been concluded.