@Edhelistar
As McFeely points out in his video on
Continuity and the one on
Characters there’s cross-brand pollution is common as ideas and concepts are shared across continuities.
Aligned pretty much adapted wholesale IDW’s Megatron Origins story than when The Covenant of Primus came out with the “canon” list of The Thirteen that influenced IDW while Ultra Magnus showed up on Prime as a no-none-sense by the book officer clearly taking inspiration from his recent MTMTE staring role.
The point is you probably shouldn’t get to hung up on Universe Classification as stuff is always bleeding into different continuities.
The new IDWverse wasted no time doing that having some surprising “G1” versions of some characters.
Such as Shadow Striker like as she appears in Cyberverse.