Originally Posted by
HypnoHustler
Because it makes no sense per the MU timeline. It's been stated in the books that 7 years passed between when Gwen died and when Ben Reilly reappeared in the 90s (it's also been stated that Gwen and Peter were cloned 2 years after Gwen died, and then Ben appeared after 5 years on the road, so 2+5=7). Gwen probably died 2-3 years after Peter first became Spidey at 15 as he had already long transitioned into college. I can't imagine less time passed than that. And OMD probably happened 1-2 years after the end of the Clone Saga, which is when Mephisto first showed a projection of Annie who would never be born after the "deal." So RYV is if Peter and MJ stayed together and had Annie, which puts it after OMD. If we put all those years together then Annie was probably born when Peter and MJ were 28 or so. Plus 16 years would put Peter and MJ at 44 or firmly in their mid 40s.
Furthermore, if Peter and MJ had Annie in their early 20s, you'd have to buy into the ridiculous notion that only a year or so had passed since Peter graduated college in the 70s and the post-OMD period in the late 2000s. So it doesn't fit.