User blog comment:Paul Nebeling/An observation and a question/@comment-27384850-20170202154638/@comment-3014077-20170202183634

I have noticed that our real world time does have a tremendous influence on the flow of the stories. After all, the WN was written in 2002(?) and Karahawa wrote a lot of material before it was published as a LN. Lots of backfill which causes some retconning. TBH, I think SAOP is going to retcon Kirito and Asuna's relationship in a major way.

As for Argo, while I won't disagree with the man who writes the stories, I did have a dark theory that sort of grows from SAOP.

Argo was part of the 75th floor scouting party that was wiped out.

It fits, unfortunately.