This has definitely taught me a lot about writing TLs, namely that it requires a lot of thought and research. While I'm abandoning this project for now, I still like the idea of a historical summary given from an in-universe perspective. In particular, I think it would be fun to do something like this, but using a comically biased and inaccurate narrator.
This helped influence a different timeline I had been plotting - but didn't make it far enough to post anything from it. This was one of my favourites on here!