Personally I consider reviving to be a particularly apt way to describe it and in no way pathetically lukewarm. It is you who have imbued the word with those properties based on your bias against me. Just looked up the definition:
"an improvement in the condition, strength, or fortunes of someone or something."
Now to me that is precisely what Markus did for us, it's a perfect definition and it's something we can all be thankful about. Hopefully we can agree!