Yes, there is an unfortunate trend of mediocre writers going back into a franchise's past and retconning for their own egos, combined with dumb corpo types who think New Coke was a good idea.
Star Trek: Picard is an old fool, all the dilithium in the galaxy exploded, there is poverty in a post-scarcity future, and really it was all Michael Burnham's doing in the past.
Dr. Who: Time Lords actually stole their powers from a little girl and time traveling comes from Planet Time.
MCU: "Kang Willed It." Every moment is preordained and the Infinity Stones are office paperweights.
Warhammer 40k: Actually this Mechanicus guy has been working on a secret plan for 10,000 years but nobody heard of him before now.
And so on. There is a reason why people would rather not see any reboots or continuations of their favorite properties anymore.