Golly-gee, why would you think that?
I know, I'm just kidding because I think I understand exactly what you mean.
Well, "everybody knows this is coming" may be going a bit too far.
DC could just keep them in a back-up feature limbo if they don't at least get a mini-series or one-shot. Hard to tell if/how exactly the "minds" of DC's "decision makers" =koff! koff! = "work" these days.