Rauru, Sonia and Mineru are some of the most elegant and badass designs the series has ever seen, so a warriors game where I could play as them would have me hyped. Sonia doing Recall fuckery, Rauru flinging stuff around with Ultrahand, Mineru whipping out tons of Zonai devices and the mech… I can picture it now.
Do whatever time travel/non-canon fuckery needed to make it happen. As long as the story is entertaining on its own (like I found AOC’s) I’ll be fine. Imprisoning War would just be a fun scenario to explore even if it’s not exactly canon. AOC already broke the canon anyway so it would be expected instead of a disappointing swerve.
Even from a story standpoint a non-canon Imprisoning War game that just uses the overall scenario can still flesh out the old sages, more Dorf screentime, Koume and Kotake tease payoff. That would still be satisfying to me.