If trump was defeated by the proverbial "deep state", and Biden is putting together a "deep state" Administation, I say "All the more power to him". At least we won't have the super shallow state any longer.
Yes I was watching news about Biden's recycled dudes from the previous democratic administrations and thinking that Trump's cult base will cry out that this is a reformation of the hideous deep state that they stupidly think he destroyed. But truth is, it is the same old same old in a kind of continuation of the Obama period. Don't expect anything progressive.
I do not totally agree with you about Biden being a second Obama. I do agree that it will be a lot of traditional (aka. conventional) drcision making. But trumps tenure and the pandemic has changed everything, if just a little.