My ideas on unexplained changes in Stilwater

[Quantum]

I actually did some googling and here are a couple of articles as an example from 2008 that mention the 5 years.

I think they just had to pick a number such that the boss (and Johnny) wasn't too much older and Ultor had time to COMPLETELY rebuild the entire city! Okay, so maybe 5 years sounds a bit short for that, but, hey, Rome was built in a day.

unlike saying that Lin died after Carlos which is blatantly untrue.

Wow, I never realized how messed up their website is!