Why is this a story? It was vital to have the old characters come back to prove that good stories can be written for older, well established characters. They've ruined the OT Star Wars characters so Picard season 3 was beyond welcome.

There has been a steady attack on these kinds of characters.

Christopher Reeves Superman is still the standard. The villains were perfect. I hear the argument that he's too powerful and it's boring to focus on the God side, but that has become an excuse to avoid writing stories that actually work. The idea of comeuppance is gone. People want to see Superman get hurt because that's somehow more believable for them. Create another character and do that to him/her/it instead of using Superman.

It is possible to write a story where the hero is Superman, the villains are terrible, they threaten Superman's existence OR something he stands for and then they get what is coming to them. It happens with Batman, it happens with the Punisher, why not with Superman? He's not Zeus, and I think the association with Christ has hurt the character, especially in 2025. People don't want to see that kind of depiction without a good story to go with it. Nevertheless -

Superman is more than a guy being good. He's not the deadbeat dad that you saw in Man of Steel - how the hell did Superman not know that Louis was pregnant??? Oh yeah, we have to lower the character so that he's more believable...that mentality is juvenile (in my opinion) and it's been steadily eroding the fantasy landscape for over 20 years.

There are too many good stories for Superman to be done poorly. He's not Zeus or Christ. He's not weak. He represents someone trying to do right, who runs into a world that doesn't always value the right thing. That's complicated, so do the work and make it interesting! DC was never like Marvel (which is character driven). Superman was an "every man" character, but society today is too fragmented for that archetype to work.

If that's boring then A) Pick another hero or B) Take the time to write a good story that doesn't change Superman into someone else.