Its "cannon". nothing has been made to retcon the events of uprising (sadly) but thats mainly cause it killed the franchises chances to make another film (also the book thats going off of uprising)

Wait theres a book

Btw if the public no longer considers uprising cannon then wouldn't there be a chance for a better sequel

No, as its like walking off a gut punch, its still there and the producers felt it hard. the black gave it a small chance to come back BUTT if they keep going with the black formula of how jeagers are portrayed then honestly it wont be pacific rim anymore. cause pacific rim was diffrent for its realism and how problematic the mech fighting trope is. and lets face it, atlas destroyer has more plot armor then any isekai protagonist. it took so much punisment with inexperienced fighters when trained pilots can only afford one of those kinda blows, ever

Oh yeah

Yeah atlas didn't get disintergrated by the nuclear explosion but the CAT VI kaiju did

Oh yeah

Slattern (a cat V) totally got vaporized by a jeager with a literal nuclear bomb strapped to its back

Your argument is invalid

No slattern survived despite striker eureka being completely disintergrated while yes Slattern was burned to hell the kaiju still survived A CLOSE RANGE NUCLEAR EXPLOSION

The CAT VI was also completely disintergrated by the nuclear explosion that atlas destroyer was the cause of

It was breacher a CAT VI kaiju shown only in pacific rim: the black