Perhaps, but that segment came before you and before me as readers, so you’re going to need to complain to a crew a few generations back about that. Since around 1968, when Stan and others realized that these characters might be around far, far longer than anybody might have anticipated, the growth rate was slowed down substantially. And it’s not idiocy to understand that these characters function best in a certain context. Spider-Man is at his DNA level a young character–if you get too far away from that, you start cutting into the core of what people respond to in the character in the first place. This is nothing new, it’s been going on in one form or another for 45 years now.