considering DC is going through another nother...nother...nother...****ING NOTHER...retcon/reboot...who even knows anymore
I am so tired of all these crises. It is getting more and more confusing.
The first one was the only good one even though it was unnecessary in the first place. If they wanted a new timeline, they could have just started writing stories that take place on a new Earth. That's what they originally did when they started writing Silver Age stories that took place on a new Earth called Earth-One.
What they should have done at the end of the first crisis... undo everything the Anti-Monitor did, bring back the Infinite Earths. And then after that storyline, start writing stories that take place on a new Earth called... I don't know,
Earth-Eight... and when they get tired of writing post-Crisis stories on Earth-Eight, they can just start over by writing stories that take place on yet another Earth called Earth-Nine instead of doing Infinite Crisis or Flashpoint or Dark Metal or whatever.