I think the new showrunners just really want to reboot the show and write Lois as she should have been written all along, but it's a little late to sweep the past under the rug like that. It makes no sense to write Jimmy Olsen as the brains of their operation last season, and now have her just magically become competent and brilliant. Even Erica has been talking in interviews of how Lois will become more intelligent this year, but c'mon the character is in her early 20's, she's either been intelligent all along or she's not, she can't just suddenly wake up smarter