I do not care if they come back to this series because the first game was fun to play. They are going to make another one no matter how many times literary geeks complain about it.
It would be nice to see that Dante has to go after Satan once again because he is the one that let the mischievous bastard into heaven in the first place. Then end it with Dante sending snakeboy into the pit and allowing him into heaven.
I am getting sick and tired of this mind set that because they are considered classics, they should remain untouched and left in a pure form. No, they should not. If they are left alone, they will become forgotten. Classics need to be taken off the wall, played with, updated, and changed every once in a while so people will find out about the older iteration.
Also, be consistent. If all that it takes to attract your ire is blatant copying, then you should give the same amount of grief to Pilgrim's Progress, which is the Protestant version of the Divine Comedy. It should not matter the age because it is structurally the same thing.
I'll say it again, if all you see in Dante's Inferno is the ironic punishments and revenge fantasies against people that wrong Dante in life, you are missing the point of the story. The poem is about a man who sinned against God and has to face those sins literally. Dante from the game and the book went on a pilgrimage because of said sins.