The past few decades of comics, especially DC comics, have shown how little they understand their own characters and their appeal.

How little they understand their own characters OR how much they've allowed commies to vandalize them?

Issue after issue, book after book, they've always brought in deep red, fist-in-the-air Leftist to "reinterpret" these characters, their motivations and their mythos to conform to their own personal political agendas. Now that's leaking onto the big screen after they hired one of those same Leftist pedophiles to direct and plan the whole DC film universe. It isn't that they don't "get it" ... they know exactly what they're doing!