There's a scene in TASM 2 that has always bothered me, and I genuinely never see anyone talk about it. Peter finally finds his Dad's old lab and uncovers the truth about his powers. This whole subplot is already shaky, but then comes the revelation.
"The human DNA implanted in the spiders was my own. Which means without me or my bloodline, Oscorp can never replicate my experiments."
And yet, for all the discourse about how Andrew is the perfect Spider-Man, or how Tobey and Tom are somehow not "true" Spider-Men for whatever arbitrary reason people have, this gets a complete pass.
How is that not completely against everything Spider-Man as a character stands for? The entire point of Peter Parker is that he wasn't special. He was a regular kid from Queens who got lucky and then chose to do something with it. That's the whole thing. That's why people love him. And sure, the bite was random, but if any other kid had been bitten, they'd be dead. Peter only survived because of his bloodline, so now it becomes a chosen one story with a different coat of paint.
TASM 2 is already a messy film, the Gwen and Peter stuff is genuinely the only reason to rewatch it, but the fact that people still insist this franchise was heading somewhere great under this direction has always baffled me. You can love Andrew's performance, I do, without pretending the writing didn't have serious problems.
And to be clear, I love Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. TASM 1 was the first film I ever saw in theatres, and it holds a special place in my heart because of that.