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They weren't a problem until some writers kept POKING things. Hawkman was a little muddied as they tried to rewrite previous continuity to accommodate his every appearance (and the fact that he was a pre-WWII character hanging around with characters who hadn't been BORN when he was created, but looking the same age). Then DC decided to reboot him in a way that invalidated what Crisis had tried to fix and never stopped trying to patch the problem and then fix the problems THAT patch would create. Repeat several times.

The Legion got rebooted, because now there was no Superboy. The Justice Society was again fine...until they decided they wanted to use them again and started retconning...the very kind of actions that made Crisis necessary in the first place.

But that's not the fault of Crisis, which was meant to clean the slate. This was the fault of Editorial at the time. Because the reboots of Superman and Wonder Woman took place at different times and some titles weren't set to handle the reboots, there were a lot of inconsistencies, especially with Crisis taking place over a year.

All told, those were minor issues. Most of the continuity was fixed. It wasn't like all of the reboots of the last five years, which left EVERYTHING in a mess. It's one thing to say that Hawkman's past doesn't make sense any more...it's another thing to say that you don't know if the Justice League did X or Y and if character X is dead or alive or was killed or not. Crisis was meant to remove the Batman of Zurr-en-Ahr and that time Batman wore a rainbow outfit...not to make it confusing if the Legion of Super Heroes ever existed or if Jason Todd was killed by the Joker.