I'm presuming after Shadow Of The Tomb Raider that Lara Croft now won't be back until the PS5, by which point it'll have been at least 10 years since we saw any semblance of the old character on console, so I'm kinda expecting them to reintroduce her again as...
Or based on current trends they'll just go and remake Tomb Raider 2. Which to be honest I'd be very happy with.
But to me she's always been more
Lara Croft than
Tomb Raider; an adventurer, a globe trotter, an explorer...and in my mind that allows them to constantly keep playing with the character. Tomb Raider is a legacy name, so I've never bought into the philosophy that she has to be raiding tombs. Maybe
a tomb, but it's just as appropriate if she's plonked on the London Underground (that would be the torturously difficult 3, BTW). As a concept I rather liked Angel of Darkness as well, it was the execution that let it down.
I do hope whatever they do with her though that she becomes more Angelina Jolie/Chloe Frazer (Uncharted) esque. The current voice actor doesn't appear to have the charisma or WITTY BANTER needed to pull it off however. The original Lara Croft exuded confidence (though more in an implied sense; I think the marketing personified that more than the games explicitly did) and that's also been somewhat lost. But then they did it with James Bond as well. They wanted to make him more vulnerable and 3 dimensional. And for the most part it worked, but now like Tomb Raider people are a little bored with that, and it's time to reinvent the wheel again...which oddly is usually to revisit the past.