I think when you last as a superhero comic fan for longer than two years or so, you get used to contradictory canon, characterizations and reboots, so that you just pick and choose what you like, and then build your own head-canon. Then you tend to (dis-)like official editorial moves based on that, only to be sometimes swayed by rather brilliant reimaginations anyway. It's somewhat like reading fanfic in a fandom with relatively little canon material but a ton of fanfic that builds on some kernel into all directions. Also a bit like fairy tales, where something like Red Riding Hood can be told and retold as pretty much anything, yet you can still see the fairy tale in it.