Trying to tie the villains of Spectre back to the previous few movies was a move that I cannot understand why the writers thought it would work. It makes little narrative sense, especially when they already built up Quantum as Craig’s SPECTRE-esque organization.

Some had a loose arc to them. Connery’s Era had a buildup to SPECTRE, post-Lazenby Bonds (Moore, Brosnan, Dalton) each referenced Tracy’s death, and Diamonds are Forever’s cold open makes a lot more sense after On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. However, with the exception of For Your Eyes Only’s cold open, all of the Bond movies before Craig worked as stand-alones.

Even have a Bond origin, with him working on secret operations in the field.

Connery’s Bond did have an arc with SPECTRE and Blofeld, but they planned that out much better than the Craig Era.

An anthology series following a different 00 each season sounds like a good idea.

>Spectre is where they became obsessed with continuity.

That was mainly due to the studio finally regaining the rights to use SPECTRE and Blofeld, and, rather than put time and effort into building them up as threat, they used them immediately as the antagonists, which led to the Craig-era self-referential retcons to make SPECTRE relevant.