The thing is that none of the endings or anything are true canon, because it's an infinite multiverse franchise now. There's a comic book that has entirely different story line, and it's "canon" as well and the story itself already involved two+ timelines. You also experience different timeline in the original game in one scene where Max goes to see a different future Chloe could experience if things went a little bit differently.
All of those timelines exist simultaneously, nothing disappears or appears from nowhere. It's just that Max, for some unknown reason, gains ability to "unmoor" her consciousness and travel around different timelines and go back and forth in one as well. This is also the reason why her so called choices in end of the first game are actually a pointless moral trap. Max isn't saving anyone by leaving, things still happen as they are.
This latest game is written by a bunch of people who dislike Chloe, so it is what it is. Just take a very negative route based on Chloe's reaction of Max not saving the town and her mother, and there you go. But the other "ending" of the original game will inevitably loop back to start of the first game. Max still has the butterfly photo there, which means there will be many timelines where she goes back to make another choice, not to mention its just a cruel torment for Max to experience like being toyed by some kind of intangible "spirit of universe" that hands her the keys to universe and tells her to struggle until her mind breaks and she gives up.
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