Work on the Pienescu edition was resumed by Mariana and Victor Iova, who published two more volumes right before the anti-communist revolution of 1989. Both were still affected by censorship, with entire pages of content bracketed out. "Cartea legendelor" was only published in 2000, by philologist Mircea Popa; it was not until 2004 that other theological writings started being reprinted. The fall of communism also signified that the full corpus of Agârbiceanu's literature could be presented, with work on his complete writings was taken up by the Iovas. "Prăbușirea" and other manuscripts only saw print in and after 1997. The project ended in 2002 and, Voncu notes, Agârbiceanu returned to a "discouraging anonymity" until 2014, when Ilie Rad began work on a revised critical edition. This also included material never published in the Pienescu edition—adding as much as 75% new content. Meanwhile, his articles for the AGRU paper were collected into a 2013 volume, "Adâncirea creștinismului" ("Inculcating Christianity"). Fragments from "Cutezări cu gândul" eventually appeared in "Apostrof" magazine in 2018. As suggested by Manolescu in 2013, Agârbiceanu once seemed "the most promising Transylvanian writer of the dawn of a new century, after Coșbuc and before Rebreanu." However, and despite "Fefeleaga" being a constant feature of literature textbooks, Agârbiceanu became "two-thirds forgotten". According to Ornea, and to various others, Agârbiceanu mostly endures in cultural memory as a "second-shelf writer".