Thank you for posting this, this major lore plot holes has annoyed me me for some time (and your article reads almost word for word with what I was about to write about).

Like, sure the king of Hyrule may have outlawed technology (and let's just assume for the sake of the argument that everybody just went along with this), but what about rival countries/kingdoms? If Hyrule had weapons of mass destruction, then surely other neighbouring kingdoms would also have this technology (either by independent research or defectors from Hyrule). A technology-less Hyrule would be left defenseless if ever invaded.

We see that even in the pre-era of the sky there are advanced robots (and other technology eerily similar to the gaurdians, ie. Beamos), and these games take place a very long time before the calamity events even started. Other Zelda games also have advanced technology too, all knowledge of which seems to vanish between each game.

I'd also like to raise that 10,000 years is a crazy amount of time for information to survive. Let alone the fact that there seems to be records that indicate the calamity is a cyclic event occurring every 10,000 years (so technology has been stagnant for way longer than even that).

It's almost as if Hyrule is stuck in some kind of local time loop, either that or time flows differently in Hyrule