Different than the norm is the point.
We know Peter and Miles have a lot of similarities, but they are still different in their own way.
Oh, really? Such as what? Do they have particularly different philosophies? Are they even portrayed to be as distant in experience and authority as they should be? No, of course not.
Miles is just diversity brand Spider-Man. I mean, they really couldn't help themselves. Here's a black-Hispanic guy. Let's surround him with friends of every ethnicity under the sun. Let's give him a deaf girlfriend. Christ.
Here's the thing: Most people who have played these games didn't read the comics at all. Their introduction of the series either came through the TV shows or the movies. They didn't even have to bother going deep into Spider-Man's origin story in the game because most people knew it already. People are far too familiar with Peter than they are with Miles. I'm sure many people were expecting to see Gwen Stacy, but it turned out to be Cindy Moon.
And thank Christ, because making Gwen a Miles love interest/supporting character was always sacrilegious. Although, more Spider-People = bad.
Just as I said before, writers typically finish a character's arch in three movies/games and this is likely where it's headed. They told nearly all of Peter's story in their universe and people are upset that they want to focus on another Spider-Man character.
You're clearly a Hollywood consoomer.
The idea that they've told anything close to "all of Peter's story" is ridiculous. Things don't work in trilogies with proper Spider-Man interpretation.
People would have been called this because they're likely upset about the idea of something like this happening when it's not that big of a deal.
That's deluded. It's not a small thing just because you say so, and it's not actually addressing the point. What
you personally think about it now is irrelevant. The fact is that it's happening.
I'm sure if Kill Bill 1 and 2 were made recently and in the third movie it starred Vernita Green's daughter as the main protagonist, people would call that woke too.
If Kill Bill 1 and 2 were made recently, they'd be completely different movies (ie woke as shit) and wouldn't have 60 years of history, including other Spider-Men (in this case) who had not a fraction of the corporate push that Miles does, and came and went. Parker is Spider-Man, everyone knows this.