This hero-worship you have of her is rather tiresome.
Escafil, if you have a problem with me, you are most welcome to take it up with me directly in PM. In the meantime, I would sincerely appreciate it if you would think before you post something like that, because it smacks of outright hostility. We are here to discuss the naming of the series, not to take out our personal problems on each other through arguments that don't even acknowledge the text we quote.
Please, with all respect due to a colleague,
take a chill pill.
Now, if I'm making assumptions about her contract, then so are you. Neither of us has it in front of us that we can spell out every nuance of meaning in the restrictions placed on author and publisher.
I do not worship her; I do not consider her a hero. She's a writer. Have I stated or even implied anywhere here that she's infallible?
And begging your pardon, but the last story arc didn't seem terribly disinterested to me. She put real work into it, even if there was a serious lapse in focus in the middle of the series.
Last point: loyalty is subjective. There are parts of the world where it is considered an act of loving loyalty for a wife to commit suicide on her husband's funeral pyre. There are other parts of the world where it is considered loyal to live on as a grieving widow.
You be loyal to the Animorphs series in your own way, and let me enjoy my books as I will.
We need to get back on-topic. Yeah, The Conspiracy could have been better named.