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This would be the big issue with a lot of retcons. People start to think the retconned version of history is the 'correct' one because that's what they're most familar with. So, you've got some fans who think WW shouldn't be in the JSA or the founding JLA, despite being a major part of their history, because Mike Carlin had a hard-on for sticking to Post-Crisis continuity, regardless of how dumb some of the retcons were.
To be fair, there are plenty of great retcons that have greatly improved characters, but I simply don't understand pretending vast swaths of a character's history didn't happen because of an editorial edict from decades ago.