Well said.
Also totally my opinion, and I consider myself a casual Snyderverse fan who has simply kept up with the news over the years from the start.
The major majority of the fans are not black and white. i.e Snyderverse or nothing. They just are stating what they want, as any paying customer has the right to do. Any normal company who had this sort of customer feedback and support would embrace it and take the easy opportunity to make money. Any new project has way more risk of acceptance.
I'd also say that the number of normies who have said to me ZSJL was 10000% better than the original and want to see more is a LOT. A followup on ZSJL is also a no brainer for easy normie buy in.
Well, the RTSC and Restore the Snyderverse movement has also been a rather strange situation from the getgo as well. With BvS Snyder delivered what he said he would do. WB apparently did not anticipate that it would be controversial, polarizing, etc.
After it was rejected by critics WB got feet of clay and changed direction and essentially did everything they could to prevent Snyder's five film saga from continuing. Because sets had already been constructed for JL they went ahead with Snyder at the helm under the assumption that they could bring him to heel. As we know, he left due to a personal tragedy. However Zack continued interact with fans on social media that wanted to see his director's cut of JL. (Had we ever seen something quite like that before? Not that I can recall...) A robust and enthusiastic demand for the Snyder cut was on vivid display via Twitter (eventually culminating in 1.54M tweets at one point, which is insane). WB then got sold to AT&T who sort of mysteriously, via Kevin Reilly and Robert Greenblatt, pushed to get the Snyder cut completed and released on HBO Max. We still don't know the numbers of views for ZSJL but indications from overseas are that it broke records.
But the main problem, I think, is that once ZSJL actually got released and the world saw how much better it is than the butchered version that Joss Whedon shot... and please note most viewers regard ZSJL as a very good to excellent movie... e.g., RT audience score of 94% with 25,000+ rating, IMDb audience score of 8.1/10 with 371,559 users voting, Metacritic audience score of 8.5/10 with 4133 voters, etc... that put egg on the face of WB execs at the top that tried to bury it. So they (mainly Toby Emmerich, and Walter Hamada following his lead as a good soldier) have evidently reacted out of butthurt pride. It's speculation on my part but I have to wonder if they also feel that they had to try to set an example of a maverick director that martialed the support of his film's fanbase on social media to such an impressive degree and thereby challenged the traditional studio power hierarchy! Like maybe they felt that if he succeeded that would be allowing the camel's nose under the tent, etc. Like if Snyder gets away with this then other directors in the future will all negotiate for final say, etc.
But had there not been this incompetence on WB's part there would not be the defensive reaction against giving Snyderverse fans what they're asking. Which is simply to see Snyder's vision for his saga continue in its own separate parallel universe/timeline within the infinite possible universes of the multiverse. One would think that a studio would embrace and
use a fandom this passionate, right? But instead WB has been so inept and dysfunctional that they're doing exactly the opposite.
Robert Meyer Burnett had it exactly right that under Kevin Tsujihara and Toby Emmerich WB nearly destroyed WB, or at the very least made it such that no talent wants to work there any longer. We don't know yet what David Zaslav of WBD will do... he remains a wild card as I've said... but new leadership at least provides an opportunity for someone with who isn't driven by injured pride and malice to make decisions about how to sort this mess out, and again ally the Snyderverse fandom, all under a "big tent" of DC content via the multiverse.
