Are we using the older meds much, like penicillin? I wonder if bacteria eventually lose their resistance to older meds with lack of exposure.
Even in a hypothetical case where a random enzyme mutation confers resistance with no real obvious cost or side effect to the cell, unless there is specific environmental pressure to keep that mutation, it can easily revert in subsequent generations.
You'd potentially have to take whole classes of antibiotics out of circulation, for a long time. And even then, some of them will maintain resistance genes because these compounds are present in the environment.