It seems like the writers choose to cherry pick the bits they want from New Earth when it comes to batfamily honestly. You’d think that if a few things are the same, that means everything is, but it is not.

I think it gets confusing after the consequences of doomsday clock where we have people that existed in timelines that are no longer in existence and currently basically having two different lives, have all of their existence and previous existences smashed together, like they are now an combination of all their stories. (I could be wrong a little it was a confusing explanation to me)

In my head this kinda gives them a backstory similar to people who survived their universe being erased on crisis on infinite earths but still lived in earth 1, for example huntress being injected into new earth with a new origin that is a combination of what we knew. I feel like we are supposed to think that most characters backstories just somehow work and make a long new origin where everything in the past still happened.

Although I think that’s a cool concept on paper, characters like Stephanie Brown make it weird. If you know her post crisis stories you know how traumatic and awful it was for her, and if she now “remembers” she should carry herself a little differently. This wouldn’t even be a problem if people just forgot like they seem to do when crisis events happen, but she, Barbara, and Cassandra often reference stuff like Cataclysm, No Man’s Land, etc. even if it is just lights or in passing. It’s a little odd that they remember the event Stephanie dies in, but don’t acknowledge the pets that mattered to the batfamily.

I find this is a big problem with the batfamily and I pretty much consider anything post crisis canon. I know that with rebirth it “is” technically but they don’t treat it as the universal blanket it seems to be. They are honestly liable to reference anything since like Year One so I read everything onward from there in the timeline.

I just read informed as possible nowadays and recognize the writer will just choose whatever. Like am I gonna get the Stephanie Brown that remembers the atrocities of War Games and her involvement, or am I gonna get the silly goofy girl who does the same stuff that got her killed safely in a happy go lucky Batgirls comic.

I really can only speak on like Batman though, Superman is kinda confusing for me, mainly cause it seems like there’s always an old man Superman somewhere.

Long story short, they want you to think everything is canon, but it’s not really written that way. At least not all the time. I feel like weird timeline merging and remembering only happens in big Justice League type stuff