I don't care about the lore of published settings precisely because of the lack of continuity between editions. If I could count on there being continuity, I might have considered using a published setting for my campaigns. But I don't see any advantage to running games in a persistent setting if the lore is being changed each time they iterate the game rules.
That said, I love persistent settings, so I use a single homebrew campaign world for all my D&D campaigns. If a given iteration of the D&D rules doesn't play nicely with the lore of my homebrew world, I simply don't run games using that edition, and pick one that is more useful to me instead.
That said, I love persistent settings, so I use a single homebrew campaign world for all my D&D campaigns. If a given iteration of the D&D rules doesn't play nicely with the lore of my homebrew world, I simply don't run games using that edition, and pick one that is more useful to me instead.