I think DC was in too much of a hurry with their product. They couldn’t accept that Marvel got lucky and was able to fill a niche without competition, because nobody had tried to create a comic universe before.
I think DC would have had more success if they had been more modest with their goals. Stick with $30 million movies and make $150 million at the box office. There are lots of comic characters that would do very well with a budget of $30-$50 million.
Same with the Jurassic Park franchise. It was amazing seeing realistic dinosaurs on screen when it first came out. After the umpteenth sequel, the wonder has faded
Unfortunately, market for block buster CGI flicks has become saturated and the novelty has worn off. Worse, the scripts have become formulaic, stale and usually politicized in a bad, obnoxious way.
The movies have become vehicles to display the latest in CGI, not tell a compelling story.
The goal seems to be to constantly top the CGI effects of the previous film so the cost of the cutting edge animation production keeps going up and up while the story line quality keeps going down and down.
My viewing time these days seems to be mostly as a captive audience on a long and tedious airline flight. Even then, I rarely seem to be able to watch one of these bombs from start to finish without either fast forwarding or just turning the thing off and putting it out of it's misery. On a lark, I walked into a theater to watch Avatar: The Way of Water and walked out half way through. The CGI was amazing and I really wanted to love it, but the story line was too shallow and over the top on the bad humans exploiting and destroying the noble savage aliens thyme to hold interest. Then again, it did do $2.3B at the box office so what do I know.
On the other had, I really expected to hate Top Gun : Maverick. Figured no way could there be a plausible way pushing 60s Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer could reprise their roles without embarrassing themselves. Could not have been more wrong. Best thing to come out of Hollywood in a long time. And the CGI was so good you could not tell the difference between it and a real aircraft. Gotta be a lesson in there some place.