New world suggestion: why are there animal people on earth?

So... I feel the need to put my hat into this ring. But you are not wrong in noticing we never breached this subject before.

When I started this world idea, it had the direct assumption that anthros were always here. It actually was initially built as an extended storyline to a different project. While that is NOT what it is now, its still important to understand why I had made some assumptions when and how I did.

1) I am always sick of seeing the explanation for anthros. Seriously, when did we ever see one that wasn't assumed to be either "humans suck we needed to fix them" or "humans broke stuff, anthros fixed it." I have seen so many good stories that never touched on the subject of HOW they came to be. And seen so many more stories touch that subject and feel worse for it. Because in the end it never matters. Humans exist here now, anthros exist here now as well. Just assume they always were there and it fixes miles of headaches and planning and we don't really lose anything.

2) The past is supposed to be kinda vague. The majority of people don't quite like reading history textbooks. As much as we can make the world interesting and possibly WANT people to know the full story, most people probably wouldn't read it. By having this past be kinda vague and kinda unknown, it allows people the freedom to change stuff up. No-one is to blame for the past events on purpose so no one group is seen as a totally bad group. If we start building a story of the "before-times" it leads down a slippery slope of "well then we should also do---"

3) If we make special rules to how humans and anthros emerged then it limits character creativity. We here on Project Cyden are 100% accepting of human characters. Its just that I have only been able to advertise on furry sites so far '^^. If we say what happened to humans in the past, or put any blame anywhere, then it may not want people to make a human character. Why bother when they were already enhanced to fit the world better long ago? That would end up excluding a large group of people with a large amount of creativity from the site. Because it was implied that furs were better for something or another.

4) Now they have to research humans. We all know not everyone will pour over the textbooks of Cyden history to have their characters fit into the world perfectly. So why give them some arbitrary thing to stumble over? We already have characters that don't follow any suggested ideas at all. And yes, there have been other ideas suggested in the early days of Project Cyden. Most people would be breaking those rules had they been put in at the beginning. But suddenly people would have to change the things they have worked hard on if we added something now.

Not to talk bad about your idea. Its a solid idea. But it goes against what I had built initially and it can lead to some not great things as a community. But like I said at the beginning, this project is not what I had first thought it would end up being. I am open to suggestions to changes and new ideas are ALWAYS welcome. Its a topic we never breached before as a thread, so this is just the first place I can write this all down. Not taking it out on you at all! If people universally want to have a story of those times and how anthros came to be, then we can discuss that idea and make it a thing. Though I would be very vocal about certain things being tonally correct