Nobody is hating on Henry Cavill. I thought he was great in the role, but was given a garbage script to work with. Superman is supposed to be a beacon of hope, not a dour, brooding, dark hero. The problem was that Man of Steel (and the Snyder verse as a whole) were written as dark weighty films and nobody was wanting that. Further while he was good in the role, he was still nowhere near as good or iconic as Christopher Reeve, but people kept trying to push the narrative that he was better.