Nah, Majora’s Mask did come right after The Ocarina of Time (like 2 of the four or five games I beat in the series that I played), it’s even obvious with the intro that it took off from where OoT left off. Even has the happy mask salesman with masks featured in OoT. It’s like link took mushrooms after saving Hyrule. All the NPCs are the same but have different names or roles lol.

Regardless, Majora’s Mask and OoT are my favs. Never played the twilight princess or any of that.

Edit: Don’t get the “get over it”, this is Nintendo’s official book, I was just sharing. You are right, a lot of LoZ stuff is contrived on the spot for fanfair. The creator of LoZ himself said the game was named last minute because he wanted it to be a “The Legend of” something name, and a co-worker suggested and American author who’s wife was named Zelda. A princes Zelda. link was named link to be the “link between worlds”.