I pretty much agree with everything you said. What's really weird about this is that it was actually shot
before Once and Always, but it seems like the end of Cosmic Fury is meant to lead directly into it.
But we do see a yellow ranger in the megazord, so it would have had to have been Minh, because Trini died in 2022 and this takes place in 2023.
Also, Billy's attempt to reconstitute the Z-wave to revive Zordon in Once and Always wouldn't have made much sense if it took place after Cosmic Fury, because Billy would have seen firsthand how it could have backfired.
There was a lot of discourse about how Zayto got demoted, and it definitely feels that way. He was basically a reconstituted corpse in this season.
He wasn't even in episodes two and three, and the credits starting in episode 4 demote him to second and Amelia first.
They did do a decent job making Amelia feel like the lead. She took charge immediately after Zayto got blasted into deep space, and was basically "Team Mom," but this feels inconsistent with how she was written in Dino Fury. They brought up her whole conspiracy theory obsession and I was like, "Oh yeah, she did have that."
Really wish they would have made Fern the Orange Ranger sooner than episode six. I guess that extra morpher Billy made was for when Ollie eventually turned good, but it made no sense to have Fern on the ship for so long unpowered and in danger.
Speaking of that, while it was cool to see Mick and Billy and Heckyl in the Talon Ranger suit (we never actuallly saw it in Dino Charge, only in the Boom comics), but I wish they would have just made new Cosmic Fury suits for them. They had more than enough Zords for them, and their suits clashed with those awful Cosmic Fury suits.
The finale is anticlimactic AF. A lot of the emotional beats are lacking, probably because it's only ten episodes, essentially a miniseries by PR standards. When Zayto goes into the grid in episode 9 you're supposed to feel
but I just felt
. And the ending when they convince Zedd to give up his power and stop the wave was just
. I just finished the episode not even five minutes ago, but I don't quite get WTF they did to stop it.
Since they're rebooting the franchise anyway, they already had an out--send the tube into the grid and let it go off. Since the Morphin Grid cannot be destroyed, only rangers' connection can be severed, let the wave sever every past rangers' connection to the grid. Then you've perfectly set up the reboot with a new team and no past rangers, but you could still play fast and loose with whether it takes place is the main universe.
It was cool that it was Zordon's voice in Zayto's body, but again if this takes place before Once and Always it's just more confusing.
We've been wondering where the fukk the aliens were for years as we've gotten closer to 2025 when SPD takes place.
seeing that Boom finally became a real ranger
and I need American figures for them. Sentai doesn't do action figures like Power Rangers does. 
), watch that before finishing Beast Morphers or else the last two episodes won't have any context.
is because they kept trying to re-do MMPR when they should have been looking at Dino Thunder. Dino Thunder has its flaws (Tommy being stuck in the suit, Trent turning good too early, the Zeltrax arc which is largely hindered because it happened while Tommy was stuck in the suit, the finale is pretty underwhelming), but like I said in that post, it's able to juggle its story and characters in a way no other season has before or since. The rangers all have great chemistry, and even though they do the Breakfast Club-esque archtypes (jock, nerd, musician, artist), by like episode four they already become good friends and get along with other, but they still roast each other in a playful manner. Ethan and Kira even had that dap they did with each other.
