One step at a time is just another way to insure the character continues to lose value. They already dragged this out too long as is. If they are going to leave Jurgen’s on so he can continue to drive general interest away with lazy factory recap and boring ideas like Condor Red, they should leave him as Ric. Calling him Dick again while leaving the same lazy complacent creators general readers have little interest in anymore, is just going to be further detrimental.
These old dudes want to hide behind behind Ric and fans not willing to accept the idea, but at the end of the day the real problem is that these complement boring creators failed to convince people on the idea with their dated style and their low effort, no care, tone deaf execution. Step one the people currently on the book need to go otherwise there is no point to even bringing Dick back.