I hope they retcon the Ben 10010 future for multiple reasons. One of them being it makes no sense that Ben 1000 wouldn't know about past Ben unlocking surge unless they are going to pull what they did with the original Ben 10000 where it's an alternate future and not the actual future. Also I'm not a fan of Glitch getting stuck as hitch.
Ben 10,010 was low key awful. I don't like how they followed up on Glitch. I don't like how they handled the end of the world. I don't like that this Ben became a trash hobo with literal garbage friends. I HATE how they handled Kevin being abandoned. And I don't buy for a second that Gwen would trust any of those villains and put them in charge of anything (except Hex).
But it has to be an alternate timeline to make any amount of sense. Outside of both Ben's Surge forms looking different, which Alien X-tinction shows is a feature of alien forms from different timelines, a branch off the reboot sure but still a distinctly different timeline. Once Reboot!Ben was taken to the future getting there should be impossible. Reboot!Ben would have knowledge of what happened and how to stop it and the original point is they didn't know. That's usually the only way to avoid narrative paradoxes, they have to be different.
I won't lie I genuinely believe every special follows a different Ben then who we followed in the show and movie. It doesn't help the writing at all but it makes more sense to me. It's biggest crime its that it was boring. It had a plot it wanted use and took the safest options to tell it. Just in a very "don't think about it" way.
