For now. I think it’s a matter of time before the original comes back, though. The teen who is “more ruthless than the older version” schtick will get tedious, and they’ll bring the OG back. Or age him up somehow. Either way.
I initially figured this might be a way to just jettison some of Cable’s baggage by having this one be from an alternate future, but it really doesn’t do that if he’s still the original, only younger. It just de-ages him but his origin is still the same. He’s just not the guy who founded X-Force or raised Hope in the future yet.
I find myself wondering if this teen version will run into Stryfe, and how that would go.