As much as I dislike how he was handled in the story, I would hate it more if....
His return to being playable came with the caveat of being able to do so only as some past version of him or an alternate creation of New Khaenri'ah. A heavily nerfed up, painfully diluted, sanitized version of the Captain without any of his struggles or accomplisments is not the character I want or admired. And if this version of him turns out of be another generic pretty man with a vision, then It's nothing more than a dollar store knock off the real thing but without even a shred of coolness of the real Captain, with all his strength, virtues, flaws, struggles, his rage and defiance against the authority of the Heavenly Principles.