>>104762751Anon, it was never about the reader's ability to identify with Spider-Man, and everything to do with Quesada NOT wanting to identify with him and keeping Spider-Man a high flying fun bachelor that he can escape into because his own marriage was coming to an end, and a divorced Peter would remind him of his own divorce, and a happily married Peter would remind him of the thing he doesn't have anymore.
Instead he wanted Spider-Man to be something that would glorify his new lifestyle so he felt less bad about it. He never once gave a shit about what the readers wanted back then. Maybe he still doesn't.
