I'd wait and see. If it was RRD, any new growth will exhibit symptoms. If it was roundup, it may show some but they shouldn't be as severe as last year.

I've seen what looks like RRD occasionally on my roses. I cut off the cane or, at least, well below the diseased cane and it didn't return. I'm not convinced everything that looks like RRD is RRD or, at least, an automatic death sentence.

Last year, some of my real troopers failed to do much. They pretty much sulked all summer. But this year look like they're ready to take off. Awakening might be doing something similar.

I'd do as Karl recommends, wait and see.

I think a few clarifications are needed.
RRD according to Epstein and Hill, the profs who studied it and encouraged its spread, found that RRD interferes with the plant's ability to convert sugar to starches which, in turn, interferes with a rose's ability to survive winter and come back the following spring. They even illustrated a simple test of cutting a stem and testing with medical iodine the presence of starch and the total absence of starch they said was evidence of RRD. When I visited Jim Amrine, we found that there were some starches in early summer in RRD infected canes, but not comparable to what E&H illustrated.
A friend burned RRD infected rose canes and found them (undried) to burn very fast, surprisingly so.

You might have gotten lucky and the disease not spread all of the way down the canes into the roots. IT it got into the roots, you will see hideous aberrant growth by midsummer.

RRD IS an automatic death sentence if you do nothing at all for two or three years.

Thanks Ann, that's what I was wondering -- whether it might mean something when such a previously robust and tip-hardy rose died back to the ground, while the tender varieties all around it suffered very little damage. I imagine I'll be looking for a new Awakening before long.

RRD interferes with the plant's ability to convert sugar to starches

That probably explains the rubbery stem symptom, doesn't it?

I hadn't put that into the rubbery stem bit, but it makes sense that it takes longer for the stems to get un-rubbery.
Especially when the stems are six feet long and still flexible.

The first part is that growth is so fast that normal HTs will only be soft at the outer two or three inches but RRD new canes may be flexible for twelve to fifteen inches.

That first RRD that was brought into my rose garden by a visitor (detailed in the ebook) and was Double Delight bent like a lariat...Thanks, York.

I'm by no means an expert, but it just seemed logical to me that if the virus interferes with the reaction where the sugar molecules are joined together into starch polymers it may well also interfere with the reaction where those same sugar molecules are joined together into cellulose polymers (the polymers are identical except for the orientation of the glucose units with respect to each other), and if I remember correctly the stem can't get stiff until those cellulose polymers have been created and set in place.

Like I said, I'm no expert. It just seemed like a plausible hunch to me.