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I dunno, I feel that forcing it to always be somewhere/place new excludes the possibility of fleshing out previously touched upon material. I like learning new things about places I've been to before, or seeing how people have gotten in since the last time I visited.
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That's not what King's Quest was about... That's what the fan games do...
You seriously must play through the original series in order, and you'll see that they never took things that deeply... Each game was fairly stand alone... Really only KQ3, KQ5, and KQ6 link to each other somewhat. Only through a couple of returning characters, Manannan and Cassima (also Vizier is mentioned in both KQ5 and appears in KQ6)... and KQ4 and KQ7 link somewhat (Edgar returns)...
KQ3 has a returning character from KQ1, but he's not used that deeply (Rumplestiltskin)... Rumpy reappears in KQ5, his personality is different...
KQ2 is pretty much a direct continuation off of KQ1 but they aren't really all that directly linked... the same can be said of KQ3 to KQ4... Directly linked, but don't really tie into each other that much...
If you wanted to learn a little more about the lands, that's what the King's Quest Companion was for...
Also consider whenever Roberta recycled Daventry the geography and scenery was never consistent! It was modified every time! I really don't want to see that happen to other places we have visited already...
Retreading back over the same areas of the lands seen in a previous game could get boring and would be unoriginal. This is probably one of the reasons I find many of the telltale games to be somewhat boring, as they are more insular and keep you in a small confined area/s, instead of expanding out to new areas... Tales of Monkey Island at least expanded out of that model somewhat...
Part of KQ universe is learning about the nations of the universe, outside of Daventry. So that each game has an original land to discover. Not only is it a discovery for the character in the game, its a discovery for the player themselves...
The exception was Daventry, it was the center of the universe
. It needed to be incorporated into each game somehow. Also technically KQ5 was a sequel to Wizard and the Princess... At least as far as visiting the same land (although again geography isn't very consistent)... King's Questions was sorta of a sequel to KQ6 (in story, not gameplay), and briefly touched the Land of the Green Isles (after the events of the game)...
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I'm not sure where you got the Lost and conspiracy theory stuff, though. Unless this is something to do with TSL, which I've not played. I know people like "originality" but there's nothing wrong with treading old ground. I find that just as limiting.
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AGDI and TSL... Both take it that route...
Longest Journey/Dreamfall too... King's Quest isn't TLJ/Dreamfall...