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 * "negate all history of the Earth-10005 timeline past 1973"

Not exactly. I was thinking about it after watching, and it occurred to me that what we saw was more like (Earth-10005, Bryan Singer, plus First Class) and (Earth-10005, Brett Ratner, plus whatever else). In general terms unhooking my train of thought of movie content a bit, and latching onto who directed what. What Bryan Singer looks to have done is that he's more or less acknowledged that the events of his first two X-Men movie actually happened in the new timeline (albeit with McCoy and Trask recasts), while pushing the events of The Last Stand aside. Magneto and Rogue still have power, and Xavier, Scott and Jean are alive, and so on.

Technically X-Men and X2 should be in a deviant timeline now, but that scene where Logan returns to the mansion at the end of Days of Future Past has Bobby and Rogue together, which of course happened because Wolverine brought her there in the first place. Sure, there are other ways she could have got there, but the easiest answer is to say that X-Men and X2 happened.

So that's my take. The butterfly effect. The butterfly gets metaphorically squashed in 1973, but the sequence of events doesn't split fully until the first two Bryan Singer stories have been told.