I don't follow the comic, so I can't say I have an inkling of what the writer was going to try, but I watched a video that mentioned Steve recently got hit with some sort of Cosmic Cube that might have restructured reality. It makes sense to me, because I mean, he's clearly the WORST Hydra agent ever! You can't beat Hydra as many times as Steve has and call yourself a Hydra agent. Unless you're the Jar Jar Binks of Hydra agents. Every helpful thing you do causes your mission to fail

So anyway, I feel like they could turn that ship around, however, they've already spit all over the legacy and it's not going to be so easy to win back the trust of the fans. I mean, I get it, working with the same characters for so many decades makes it hard to do new things, but not every "epic" idea is supposed to become canon. Gotta save some material for the fanfiction