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OK, so here's what I've heard from my sources at Paramount and Hasbro (specifically Allspark pics):
Bumblebee, in its finished form, is designed to be ambiguous barring the last five minutes. Bee transforms into a Camaro that is identical to 2007, and this is on purpose. They could've easily made it a different car or have him stay a WV, but they didn't. They didn't have to put Simmons in the film. They didn't have to put S7 at the Hoover Dam. But, they included the last five minutes. Optimus arrived in the 80s. More than 5 Autobots arrived soon after.
People need to accept that the Bayverse, in its whole exact form, is dead. @SilverOptimus and I have been saying this. As of this moment, the general strategy is to take what worked from the Bayverse that everyone liked, and have these elements be key parts of a new universe that Travis Knight set up.
Let me quote Ecclesiastes 3:
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what isplanted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;”
This doesn't mean that everything from the Bayverse is gone, but the fact remains that Bumblebee can be construed as canon to Transformers much more than 2-5. And this is for a reason, Transformers is considered by the general public as good to great and is a classic in terms of the 2000s.
The Bayverse’s time is over. It had a very good run, all things considered. Transformers was never supposed to be a Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings. But it was. And it can be again.
So,it has good things from Bayverse but its in his own timeline so a reboot.