As an Eastern Catholic, I have no desire to go back to the calcified Neo-Thomism of the pre-Vatican II era that pretended to be codeterminate with Catholicism itself.
Eastern Christianity owes its heritage to an entirely different theological tradition that the New Theologians at least held in a higher esteem than the manualists.
The New Theologians only borrowed and counterfeited selected Eastern traditions of the East to use for eradicating traditions of the West. Perhaps now that the West has been humiliated, it will show more respect toward the East.