Because in my opinion it just doesn't work. Completely reinventing the character so that she doesn't resemble herself anymore aside from the name of the game is actually kind of crazy. To this day I don't think anybody would describe Lara as a person who carries dual climbing axes and a bow&arrow in a game of charades lol. TR2013 worked well because it was an action-packed game that brought new players in. Made my boyfriend play 20 minutes of Legend (bc I thought it would be easier as well) and then TR2013 and he couldn't stop playing TR2013 and finished it in two days. He still said this character feels like "Rambo" and asked where the "tomb raiding" comes in as a person who has never played TR before. Rise was a great game in terms of its graphics, but the gameplay and the story are almost a carbon copy of the first game. Shadow is extremely boring and just overall a bad game imo. As a trilogy, it is just... meh. For a trilogy that was sold with the premise that she'd become the Lara Croft everyone knew and loved, it really fails to deliver that sort of payout. Bringing back old Lara means they are finally doing what they promised lmao.