I feel like that's more a limitation of writers imagination than an actual block to stories. The whole reason why Superman is my favorite hero is because while every other hero focuses on having an actual physical weakness or limitation, Supermans often focuses on his mental limitations of being the goodest boy to ever scout. Lazy Superman writers fall back on Kryptonite being the key weakness and have it all revolve around that. Good writers focus on his emotional state and Kryptonite would be used as a representation of that emotional state.

For example, I can see why Superman wouldn't involve himself in everything that he hears. His whole thing is to inspire hope and goodness but by showing up to every single crime all the time, he'd just instill fear in everyone. He also can't rock up to every Dictator or everything on the planet because then you've just got a God who is showing up to tell you how to run your country and there are already people who are terrified of that idea becoming a reality. He's also aggressively American and the imagery of an American rolling around the world telling you how to do your shit also won't fly. Not then and ESPECIALLY not today.

For Superman to continue inspiring people, and not scaring them into submission, he just... can't react to all of those things around him. Not without inherently changing the entire status quo of the whole planet.

And that's just one idea as to how you could explain that off to write a good Superman story...

Genuinely and fully believe that the reason most people don't like Superman is because most writers of Superman don't understand the source material. Also genuinely believe that Zach Snyder got it better than anyone wants to give him credit for because he actually demonstrated those sides of Superman and had him deal with it. That's the origin story I wanted. Not something sanitized to high heaven and dripping with nothing but optimism. Reality doesn't work like that. Clark isn't blind to reality. He had to learn his lessons in hard ways and has limits he has to deal with that no one else can relate to. Also not like he can easily go through therapy. Cavills Superman was both a genuinely good person but also struggling to find out how to be one with the person he was and the person the planet expected him to be. People can not like it all they want, that's fine, but he created a more realistic version of Superman as a man instead of just a Superhero.

James Gunn is going to churn out YET ANOTHER FUCKING ORIGIN STORY FOR SUPERMAN AND THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, slap bright colors on everything, have him flying around with a fucking Dog and just spam Donner references repeatedly while not even demonstrating a single hint of a struggle and everyone is going to shit themselves over it because it will be pure nostalgia with nothing new and no hint of Superman beyond a lunchbox image of him. I have no fucking faith for Gunn whatsoever. Don't get me started on the suit looking like it came from a fucking Spirit Halloween. Also Krypto can fuck off.

God dammit I am so fucking sick of James Gunn. And this isn't me being like "Oh Snyder got it better therefore fuck Gunn." It's because I genuinely have no faith for anything that Gunn ever touches. He ends up backflipping away from the source material with his head up his own ass. Asshole called the 2023 Flash movie the "Greatest Superhero Movie of All Time". Dude oversaw both that movie and Aquaman 2, coming in to fix both of them but given they're both dogshit I don't know how much he fixed. Don't get me started on calling the second Suicide Squad movie the same fucking name.

His movies don't amount to anything in the run of story. The only thing he does is find a ridiculous character and make the audience emotionally invested. Every goddamn movie. Groot in Guardians and it's going to be Krypton in this upcoming bullshit. They don't have ANY STORY. They're just surface level garbage that builds tension only to slap a joke in to remove it because the made is terrified of any suspense. His movies just end up being the same schlock over and over and over again, being wildly self indulgent on pop-culture or meta-references without any hint of a vision or linking thread.

Worst Director currently working because he keeps getting jobs he isn't qualified for.