I honestly feel that Inti HAS lost their magic touch in regards to Megaman. The reason why? They are whoring megaman out way too much. There's very little of what made megaman megaman left. There's too much story involved where there should be a very minor amount. And it's getting to the point where you don't even play as Megaman anymore. There are a mess of abilities that just don't seem "megamanish" to me.
I'm just going to go ahead and call you an idiot now, because there're a number of huge differences between the different series in the franchise - for example, the amount of story. MM9 had a minimal amount (part of why it was so "meh" to me, but yet I think it's only appropriate), and so it fit perfectly with the rest of Classic.
The other games Inti have made created their own series and are free to be as different as they want. Legends was extremely different already, so noone can claim there was no precedence.