The past ten years of Superman material makes me want to shoot myself in the head.
Man of Steel was a gritty, overwrought piece of dogshit, BvS was a cinematic abortion, it took like four more years after the shitty Justice League retinkering before anything remotely Superman-esque happened in the Snyder movies (during which they apparently made a better Superman movie in Shazam than anything Superman himself had been in before), and the animated movie reboot that added a continuity to all the movies began with a really jarheaded dickhead version of Superman that fucking sucked.
All-Star Superman was a flawed movie, a bit slow in places, but it captured the essence of what Superman should be about. The DCEU took a character who's a protector, who embodies hope and justice, who - despite being more powerful than us in almost every possible measure - embodies the human condition so much, and they made a movie where he commits like 20 9/11s in a row. And then they killed him, and then they brought him back, and he did jack shit for years until they wrote him out of the live-action movies. That's combined with all of the media where they turned him into an unstoppable neck-breaking fascist so people could root for Batman to stop him.
Are we really so personally wounded, is the collective public consciousness truly so shattered by war and terrorism and political divide, that we can't place our hope in a character who can genuinely hold the world on his shoulders? Can we have a Superman story where the conflict is whether the character can truly live up to his ideals, where the movie affirms that even in the face of the greatest adversity, he has the determination and ability to do anything he puts his mind to? Because fuck, it's a lot more assuring and fantastic than seeing a superpowered human being accidentally enact 9/11 and kill thousands of people because that's what would actually happen if a flying invincible brick ran into a skyscraper.
No wait, I've got it wrong. It's not that we're collectively so traumatized by all this from shit we're living through that a live-action Superman couldn't possibly exist without addressing that trauma. The REAL issue here is that SuPeRmAn iS a MaRy-SuE SeLf-InSeRt bEtA CuCk wHo'S ToO BoRiNg
I would definitely check out Superman and Lois on the CW/HBO Max. It's a nice proper take on Superman. It's technically Arrowverse-related but requires no prior viewing of any other Arrowverse shows and is both tonally and stylistically different than the rest of CWs stuff.