One of the ideas kicked around for The Spy Who Loved Me was to open with a "new" SPECTRE coming in and blowing away the old guard (Blofeld apparently included). This ultimately went nowhere (just Google "Kevin McClory Thunderball" if you want a long and sordid history), though Blofeld himself was ultimately bumped off in For Your Eyes Only in a very off-hand way.
Now we "know" that SPECTRE - the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion - is coming back. One wonders if they're going to replace QUANTUM in the same way.
A better question is WHY???
SPECTRE was a fun campy 60s supervillain group, parodied by Austin Powers. In other words, it's the thing current Bond is running from. (And we can debate the merits of that artistic decision. I like my campy Moore and my edgy Dalton. I'm allowed to be indecisive like that.)
SPECTRE was all volcano lairs and hypnotized dolly-birds and SPACE LAAAAAAZERS. QUANTUM is, essentially, the Bond equivalent of the MCU's HYDRA. They infiltrated several governments. They don't need to take over the world because they already have all the parts they want. QUANTUM fits the Craig films' tone so much better than SPECTRE does that I really question this decision.
A second thing I'd like to note is that the Spectre teaser includes what looks like a bullet hole in glass with a black background. I've seen that somewhere before, I just know it.
But hang on, the Craig films already did the "Bond starts out as energetic and arrogant and turns into a more familiar character via the process of falling in love with a doomed girl who can act in a long-but-bothered-to-tell-a-story film with a sucker-punch aimed at book-readers" one. So they're probably not doing that.
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