Giving her amnesia, on the other hand, is an intriguing approach and provides inner conflict for Carol to struggle through.
Back in 2016, Nicole Perlman, who worked on the Captain Marvel script with Meg LeFauve before Geneva Robertson-Dworet took over, said that the movie wouldn’t be doing a straightforward adaptation of Carol Danvers’ origin story, otherwise it would come off as being too similar to Green Lantern’s.
By the end of Captain Marvel, we can likely expect Carol to revert back to her regular self (albeit changed by her experiences fighting for an alien species), and by Avengers 4, hopefully she’ll more closely resemble the Carol we know from the printed page.
Plus, Carol’s energy-based powers come from a separate experience after Rogue drained stole her original powers, and all of that is way too convoluted to adapt for film and impossible to faithfully pull off since the X-Men film rights don’t reside at Marvel Studios yet.