It’s very slightly tongue-in-cheek, like the theory that Gilligan’s Island started with a failed drug buy. You could explain away most of the contradictions as cover stories, or as applying only to the individual JBs.
The Dread Pirate James Bond … ask about YOUR franchise!
Yeah, I’m not particularly onboard with the complaint in the OP. To me, it’s a bit of the cheese and fun of Bond, and gives the series that comic book kind of feel to it.
Rosebud!
That had been pretty much established in the previous film by having him get up and brush himself off after a wall fell on him.
Get back to me when they tell Bond’s life in retrospect.
Tangential: in the books, Ian Fleming actually kills off Bond at the end of a book, at least twice.
At the end of From Russia with Love (and also in the movie) remember Rosa Klebb’s poisoned shoe-toes? THe book ends with Bond being kicked, getting woozy, and collapsing. The next book (I forget which it is) M remarks how lucky it was that a nearby doctor recognized curare (or boggledy-boo) poisoning and was able to save Bond.
At the end of You Only Live Twice, Bond has killed Blofeld, but got banged on the head during the explosion and has a complete memory loss. He winds up going to Russia to find out who he is; the implication is that they’ll kill him, of course. But they don’t, they brainwash him and send him back to London to kill M in The Man with the Golden Gun.
He got better.