When you do NOT control EVERYTHING including editing stuff like that happens.
We saw with New 52 Static, Jason Rusch and John Stewart.
You can not just have a strong writer-you need a stronger EDITOR.
You can't have an editor default Xanshi-something that even 90s John Stewart trading cards kept mentioning (I own them).
How many times In mainstream Dc have we see John's family since 1988? Or his wife get mentioned?
He has an adopted brother-whose to say that brother is not the father of Jakeem Thunder? Exxy from Cyborg?