It seems to me that very few fully accept the Bionicle storyline - everybody has his/her own headcanons. What one hates, the other loves. There are details of the canon story I don't like either, but coming up with my own version is some kind of "creative challenge", and I like it. Also, I find interesting reading others' versions, what they kept from the original, what are their headcanons. What I really liked (and still like after all these years) about Bionicle isn't the story "as it is", but the possibilities it gives. More or less like the sets themselves, that can be tweaked or used for original creations. I just wish GregF answered a little less questions, there are too many technical details that kinda sound like Retcons. Also, I tend to consider the Bionicle sagas as "separate stories", so in the 2001-2003 saga Makuta is Mata Nui's brother, some kind of evil spirit, while in the 2006-2008 saga he is a member of a species.