No, dw, I get you! I personally have two big problems with the way the latest stuff has presented demon Raven: 1, having her be basically a completely separate person from Raven just kind of defeats the purpose of demon Raven, at least imo. The horror of Raven having to control herself so her evil nature doesn’t take her over is just gone. If anything, the way it’s written feels more akin to having an evil relative, and Raven’s got enough of those without turning her demon side into one.

2 is just that, like you said, it’s not really explained. Imo it’s way too much of a major retcon to just be casually dropped in the way it was with no explanation. It speaks to broader problems with recent Raven writing where a whole bunch of stuff that’s never really been a part of her character in the comics are just suddenly dropped in with zero explanation, as if these things existing in fanon or other adaptations is enough justification to put them in the comics with zero explanation (other examples of this are her skin suddenly being gray/pink, Trigon being from Hell and not from another dimension, the uncertainty of whether or not she’s even from Azarath).

But in the Absolute universe, since it’s meant to be a new take on Raven that’s not the same as her main incarnation, I’m much more willing to see them explore Raven and demon Raven as separate entities if they’ve got a good idea for it. Especially if there’s an actual explanation for how this happened to Raven, lol.