I think Cody has a point, if you look at it from the standpoint of "Halo Reach's retcons are not what bring Halo: Reach in and of itself down." My perspective on that is that it ignores the fact that members of a series are interconnected; retcons may not have a direct effect on the media doing the retconning, but they can sometimes have a strong negative effect on the media that tapped into the retconned material.
I would go as far as to say that this holds to some level of meaningfulness even if the material doing the retconning is, in and of itself, quite high quality; as Plato said through Socrates in Republic, "purple is a most beautiful color, but you don't paint the eyes of a sculpture purple, because it would make the scultpure as a whole look all wonky."
(Okay, so the quote is paraphrased. The original translation is longerish.)
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