User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Ecological Info/@comment-21371438-20140916095353/@comment-4212769-20140917081657

@ArcE: Just saying: Imagine to be one person in the MH world. Could you still call the 3rd gen Rathalos a "revamp"?

And that's exactly where Capcom is going with these explanations. While the reason is of course that they needed to change the design etc. this explanation doesn't work if you don't think of it as a game but an actual world, what Capcom tries to portray with these games. It's not just a game but a whole world they created and for the inhabitants of this world a "revamp" is no suitable explanation.

You're just thinking too technically. Just let yourself go into the MH world. ^^