>Gather together enough younger characters to take over for the aging originals
>Literally tease that a passing of the torch is going to happen by having one of the veterans say he's finally going to hang it up after one last mission
>Literally kick the foundation out from under the whole idea in the same game
>"Fuck that, everyone gets virused and physically stays 35 or younger from now on"
Seriously, they're so risk averse they've got only themselves to blame.