>>84138343Thats because this version of Lex is not a threatening person. He is a pathetic one.
Whether that was the intent is up for debate, but this version of Lex:
Isn't charismatic or able to sway a crowd, as evidenced by his inability to get through a short speech at his own party without rambling as fuck and finally sperging out so hard he has to leave the stage.
Isn't terribly smart, not just because his plans don't make much sense but also because the only thing keeping him from being arrested for the shit he pulled in Africa after being connected to it BECAUSE OF COURSE HE WAS, was that the CIA was there and it would be inconvenient to expose that fact. If Jimmy Olsen had not blown his cover and died, Lex would have been behind bars within the first 20 minutes of the movie.
Isn't physically powerful. Not that we would expect him to be against Superman, but the fact remains that without the ability to oppose Superman directly he needs to have some other way to threaten him.
And he isn't even a good businessman. He inherited all of his money, he isn't a self made man. His greatest achievement in life is not pissing away the family fortune, and eventually throwing billions of dollars at making Superman's life marginally more shitty because of a misplaced sense of militant atheism that only works if you take at face value the Snyder forced narrative that Superman is LITERALLY Jesus.