Bingo!
I didn't say it was a reboot, I said it was an in-continuity reboot, just like J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies.
No, what I'm saying is that, prior to the release of Soul Reaver and off the back of previews for that game, a lot of Blood Omen fans wrote a lot of angry letters to magazines saying how they thought the new game was some kind of an abomination and a travesty and that it shouldn't be allowed to be made given how different it was from LoK:BO1's isometric hack-&-slash Action-RPG formula. I remember reading them and it almost put me off Soul Reaver even though I'd never played LoK:BO1 (...and still haven't, truth be told - played *all* the others, though!). In fact, it did delay my purchase until I could get LoK:SR1 on the cheap (sorry, Crystal Dynamics - I was young and foolish!).
The only comparison I'm making is that people were angry - I'm not commenting about whether or not it was justified.