User blog comment:TheDoctor230/Flash Season 4 Theory/@comment-26618197-20171208154619/@comment-31614978-20171208175617

It was also supposed to last a lot longer than it did, which according to TV tropes: Cary Bates had several plans that would have continued if not for the Crisis, including Flash being found guilty and going "on the run." This would’ve kicked off a new story arc which would have had Flash continuing to do his good deeds as a wanted man with an arrest warrant hanging over his head. What he liked most about this idea was "the delicious irony of a Flash who ends up joining his own Rogues Gallery."

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhatCouldHaveBeen/ComicBooks

I doubt the show will go along this route, but just thought it would be fun trivia.