Leaving aside the complications that came up in the pages of Infinity Inc, one of the biggest challenges was the fact that the Lanterns suddenly needed to share a timeline. until the Crisis of Infinite Earths made things VERY complicated. These characters continued to operate in their own distinct version of Earth. The JSA and Earth-2 continued to gain in prominence, and when Infinity Inc, a new team of young heroes made up of the children of classic Justice Society characters, appeared in All-Star Squadron #25 in 1983, two members, Jade & Obsidian, were the children of Scott.
As the Multiverse was introduced, and the Silver Age characters started to mingle with their Golden Age counterparts, the vast differences between the Sci-Fi Green Lantern and Alan Scott's clearly mystical powers drew a stark contrast between their worlds. Unlike the Flash, however, who had basically the same origin and powers with a new identity and costume, the new Green Lantern was WILDLY different. Most of the superhero comics of the day were discontinued as the industry moved on to other subjects, but when editor Julius Schwartz started to bring in new versions of classic comics heroes, Green Lantern was one of the very first to be reimagined. He appeared prolifically across this era, although his book gets harder to read when he's joined by a fat bumbling sidekick. The character was clearly a runaway hit, appearing over in All Star Comics with the Spectre and the Flash even before joining the JSA in issue #3. Nodell seemed to have a knack for creating mysterious bad guys and waiting until late in the story to reveal their quirk, creating characters like Solomon Grundy and Vandal Savage. In short he was far more analogous to that era's Superman. Instead he spent most of his time empowered by his magical Lantern to just fly and punch people. There were no green light constructs, those were added retroactively after the Hal Jordan Green Lantern was introduced. The Green Lantern as he appeared in these classic Golden Age comics was a far cry from the Green Lantern we know now. He's more famous for having left comics and moving into advertising where he invented the Pillsburry Dough Boy. Weirdly, while so many of the creators of the day would go on to be celebrated for their creations, Nodell seems to be little more than a footnote in comic history. Alan Scott appeared for the first time in All American Comics # 16 in 1940, a co-creation of artist Bill Finger (who notably was the artist responsible for all things Batman) and a guy named Martin Nodell.
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