As such, the 25th Bond film will forever be ‘the one Daniel Craig couldn’t be bothered with initially but then thought ‘yeah go on then, why not'”.
This is not to say that the franchise can’t still be reinvigorated with Craig in the lead however, it just takes a visionary director to rethink the franchise.
And maybe, if rumours are to be believed, it is such a director that has convinced Craig to return: Christopher Nolan.
Everyone takes behind-the-scenes info like this into the cinema with them and it becomes part of the film’s narrative.