re: Is there a reasonable defense of not considering the Dollars Trilogy a “true trilogy”?

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The character was based off an old Japanese film about a samurai with no name who gave fake names when he had to.

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I think it's the Eastern origins of the myth that give the Dollars Trilogy its special edge. The Man With No Name is less a man and more a wandering phantom.

There's also a Zen Buddhist tinge to his personality where he sees all this carnage around him and stoically accepts it as an inevitably that he cannot control or do anything about. So he just continues to stride through life unfazed.