Garfield was not the problem. In the last movie, bad editing and a loose storyline killed the franchise.
I’d add the short duration reboot between it and the previous series.
I think Spiderman is overdone, at this point. I don’t see much of a need to try to shoehorn him into the MCU, it’s doing just fine without him and would suffer from the addition of an angst-ridden, wise-cracking teenager. If they really want a smart-a** it would be better to try to pry Deadpool away from whoever has him (Universal?)
The stupid reboot with this guy was stupid out of the gate, it was a a reboot for the sake of the studio, not for the sake of anything else.
Wasn’t needed, and turning Parker into a punk skateboarder instead of the nerdy guy the character always was was another stupid move... just like making Superman all full of angst over his birthright.
Just stupid.... Best thing that could happen to Spiderman would be for him to take a decade or two off from the big screen.
The writing was the problem with the last two movies.
In the Ramos trilogy Peter Parker is written as the picked on high school nerd that he was in the comics.
The slightly bad boy “just an average guy” makeover didn’t fit the character. It would have been a good fit for a Nova movie though, and Garfield actually looks the part for Richard Rider.