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Gundam 0083/thunderbolt story inconsistency

I’ve been a big fan of Kelly for along time, I think his role in 0083: stardust memories is very similar to the role that Lalah filled in the orginial gundam(teaching Amuro understanding and how to come to grips with himself, Kelly teaches Kou to grow up and stand up for what he believes in no matter the cost) I was very surprised to find that he survives in the manga version of 0083, titled rebellion, I felt there is more to the character than the show gave him, more lessons for both to learn.

But then came thunderbolt,

the living dead division allowed zeon soldiers who were wounded and left disabled the ability to pilot mobile suits! But that’s where the story issue comes up: Kelly’s main goal as a character was attempting to overcome his disability to return to the battlefield and fight for what he believed in, with his friends and family. But zeon forcably retired him and wouldn’t let him fight anymore.

A couple issues to back up my point:

-Kelly was an ace pilot, and a mobile armor pilot, there was no reason to keep him in the military if there was a way to salvage him

-the delaz fleet retreated to the shoal zone, at the end of the war(depending on anime or manga, the delaz fleet returns to the garden of thorns(shoal zone) at the end of the battle of Solomon or the battle of A Bou Qu.) which is the exact same place where thunderbolt takes place (the shoal zone, the wrecked colony of side 4 according the star charts for gundam)

-there are other pilots depicted as having more disabilities than just missing an arm, sometimes even higher than where Kelly lost his arm

Overall, I think it was a simple mistake, the team for thunderbolt didn’t really comb through all the continuity just to make sure their series made sense and continued cannon, they just wanted to make a gundam series that was different. I understand it really doesn’t matter but Kelly is a very important character and for this to go unnoticed doesn’t really make sense.