I'm happy to discuss the plot points, but as long as we don't end up going around in circles due to opinions rather than fact.

The Japanese cartoon continuity is officially tied to the Canadian cartoon continuity and it states that Primal has a Matrix.
I'm interested as to how you think it's officially tied Gok? The relationship is one sided. BW movie or II or whatever depends on the CGI tv show, but the CGI tv show doesn't depend on the Movie II thing. It is a stand alone continuity that has had things applied to it in retrospect, sometimes poorly. Optimus Primal being used in the capacity he was in the Japanese stuff is one of those poor applications, as it makes stuff up out of nowhere.

Optimus Primal is a first time commander of a Maximal exploration ship, not a Supreme Maximal Commander with an Energon matrix in his chest.