I don't know what the heck Sony thinks they're doing with all these villain spin-offs.
If they're not connected to any Spider-Men, who cares? And if they are, Sony should be making that clear to audiences instead of the bizarre "are they?"/"aren't they?" dance they've been doing with Venom and Morbius being connected to the MCU, then not connected, then kinda/sorta connected... but not really... but maybe.