Individual fans can prefer all they want, no one is saying otherwise. The going around talking point that the independent Craig sphere death somehow hampers writers for Amazon's do whatever they want to do cause they own the IP now situation is just silly.

The time it took to lure him in with all those cups of tea, earl gray, hot must have been something.

Poor Academy X kids over here catching strays, haven't they been through enough!

Exactly this.

They were films spread across decades and actors, with only the supporting structures/people being a sort of loose connective frame.

Toxic masculinity is a hell of a drug. Just how they almost gleefully announce all the time that they are dirty, nasty, terrible people while bemoaning that no one wants to be around them or touch them.

I wonder why dude, I wonder why.

... the pain. Public shaming.