>>118239958>It's better as artificial because it's shorthand to convey Peter's intelligence to the audiencePeter being a supergenius is mostly irrelevant to his stories. Even Stan Lee said that he was not supposed to be one.
>AND is a good way to show his money troubles when he's struggling to get the resources to make his webs.His stories without webs are super rare even when he's broken.
Nevermind the fact every spider-hero is forced to use this gadget as well even though most of them are not able to build them so you have to make up countless different forced plot excuses for them to be able to get one.