I love the time travel ending to the original Superman. It had to end that way, in a world-altering sci-fi climax forcing Superman to choose between his identities; between obeying his Kryptonian father Jor-El by never interfering in human history or rescuing his favorite human.
https://twitter.com/MaskedSPMenace/status/1399314326763171843
Another: that movie in some ways turned its back on a character created by two Jews partly as a response to the rising global fascism and antisemitism of their time by ushering in the Christianized Superman we are still stuck with today.
Another: while "Superman might be an alienated cynic" is far too plastic a conception of the character, "Superman is always forgiving and friendly" is too rigid. Siegel and Shuster's Superman didn't hesitate to dole out karmic justice. 
DCAU Superman also had a mean streak and wasn't always loved. He flipped out and destroyed shit when Darkseid murdered Dan Turpin. S:TAS ends on a sad note when he's turned against humanity and loses their trust. And in JLU he's deeply vengeful toward Darkseid for it all.
But this isn't at all a vindication of the DCEU Superman, who doesn't feel to me like an organic evolution of these features but a radical departure from the previous 75 years of Supermen and ultimately reflective of a strange obsession with turning the original superhero heel.
Superman was in many ways a social technology for enduring/resisting the alienation of modern city-life, urban crime, corrupt cops, large-scale anonymous interaction, & fractured community/intergenerational ties. He's the UN-ALIENATED alien. He's the stranger who's ALSO a friend.
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