The reboot. After a three-year pause, the franchise brings the flipped format back with a Bachelor runner-up from Georgia ready for the chair from limo step one. Nine episodes is the longest the show had tried, and the extra runway gets used on travel dates that push past the mansion gates with confidence the early run could not afford. The casting tightens, the producing tightens, and the season re-established the show as a permanent fixture rather than an experiment.
Slot #15 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.