Just because Akira had involvement with something, even if it's direct involvement, that doesn't make the product canon. Also, after seeing the V-Jump comment translation (https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/v-jump-september-2014-akira-toriyama-comment/), I think he was saying that he was making the movie as if it were a continuation of DBZ, without it being a continuation of DBZ. Dragon Ball Super's interpretation of BOG and ROF don't have anything to do with that, and I'm pretty sure Akira's gone on to say that DBS is canon.
That said, what's canon and what isn't with DBS should be fairly simple. If Akira says it's canon, then it's canon. He made the script for DBS, and both Toei and Toyable have made additions to the script for the anime/manga adaptations.
I suppose this is the part that gets a little confusing. Dragon Ball Super, in of itself, is in fact canon. The anime and manga adaptations are still continuations of DBZ, but they're just different tellings of it. They're both still considered canon, but just not canon to each other (The anime isn't canon to the manga, and vise versa).
Calling either of these 'parallel universes' aren't exactly wrong, but they're not the best way to define them either. Plus, them being called 'parallel universes' doesn't mean they interact/contradict with the """Official""" DB timeline or DBS's multiple universes, they're different kinds of 'parallel universes' if that makes sense.
They exist side by side without mentioning/referencing each other. This isn't an absolute rule, but it applies here. So manga like Dragon Ball Minus is still canon, even if it references anime only material (Plus the anime only material of DB/Z for the most part doesn't contradict the manga, it only adds to it, so there's no reason it couldn't exist in the manga should it be mentioned).
There's a lot of things that support DBS being canon (Like the script being made by Akira, and it taking place after DBZ), and a lot going against it (Different adaptations that contradict each other). This really is where the modern definition of 'Canon' can't properly define DBS's canon, and it's where I think we have to acknowledge that this is a work of fiction, and anything goes. Just because you can't define DBS's cannonocity with the modern definition of 'Canon', doesn't mean that it's not canon. There's an exception to every rule, and DBS is one of those exceptions.
Sort of adding to that, what's canon also depends on what the creator's working on at the time. For the longest time, DBGT was canon, simply because there was no one saying otherwise, and it was quite clear that that was the globally accepted 'continuation' of DBZ (And no, Neko Majin ain't canon because it's a gag manga, same with Dragon Ball SD). It was only until BOG came along that it no longer was considered canon. People did speculate for the longest time that DBS could work its way into DBGT, but I feel like it's passed the point of no return by now.
Finally, does it really matter if it's canon or if it isn't? If DBS is entertaining in its own right, then it shouldn't matter, and people should still be able to love it all the same. Same goes for if people don't like it, they should be able to do so even if it's not canon.
For all intents and purposes, DBS is just a neat little series that takes place between DBZ episodes 288 and 289, and that's all we really need. Canon or not, it is what it is. It would be nice to get a proper, full statement from the great man himself, but until then, we should probably just settle with 'DBS is canon, with the manga and anime adaptations being cannonical variations of the main script'.
And yes, recreating the DBS manuscript through novelising similar plot points would be nice, but I think that's the entire point of the anime/manga. It'd be far too bare bones, and while it might please hardcore Akira enthusiasts, most of us would probably find it very boring and too quickly paced. At this point, the only hope we have of a 100% agreeable canon DBS is if Akira makes a reboot/retelling of DBS, one adaptation (Like a multi-part movie like Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel), and says it's the official canon.
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