Goku as he appears in GT and in Dragon Ball Super.
Dragon Ball GT has always been in a bit of a precarious position, as a sequel to Dragon Ball that wasn't based on Akira Toriyama's work, but that situation only became more controversial with the creation of Dragon Ball Super. While Super is ostensibly set before GT, the two series simply don't play nice together on the continuity front.
Since Super was produced with Akira Toriyama's involvement, most fans lean towards including it as canon while excluding GT, despite the fact that GT came first. There are, of course, adherents who consider GT better than Super, although they're few and far between. Fans of GT naturally don't want to see their series booted out of canon, and will sometimes take to attacking Super for creating the continuity issues.
This automatically eliminates all continuity issues between the two series, as one no longer needs to lead into the other. Making GT an alternate universe to Super even means that concepts from GT, like Super Saiyan 4, can still be used in the Super timeline, as they must logically still exist, but doesn't bring the continuity baggage of GT and its character development with it.
As such, it seems like the most advantageous situation for Toei is the one that we're in now: pretend GT is still canon and don't acknowledge the various ways in which it can't possibly be. That's unfortunate for fans, as ignoring the continuity issues won't make them go away.
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