Originally Posted by
TinkerSpider
AF 15 and the first 125 issues is a massive period of growth for Peter, beginning with his first loss of innocence in Amazing Fantasy 15, meeting and losing his first love Betty, graduating high school, meeting Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson, Flash going off to war (another marker that this story is about young adults), moving out his childhood home and into his first apartment, falling deeply in love with Gwen to the point of wanting to marry her, losing another figure figure in George Stacy, and the death of Gwen which marks the loss of any remaining childish innocence and Peter is fully a grown up by the end.
Therefore, if anything, the lesson of the first 125 issues is to continue growing and progressing Peter Parker as a fully human character. Because he was far from stuck in amber during that period.
While I agree it is a seminal run, I believe there is a danger in believing there can only be one seminal run per franchise.
First, it discounts any creativity or freshness a new creative team may bring. Originality is stifled if the seminal run can't be breached or changed, but can only be repeated, homaged or pastiched. It also leads to diminishing returns as the same stories get put on repeat over and over again, much like how in the olden days each time an analog copy was made, it degraded.
Second, every generation has its own values, zeitgeist and culture. An argument for OMD was that the marriage prevented new generations from discovering Spider-Man. Well, no, it didn't; those issues still very much exist and are now more accessible than ever before.What OMD really did was preserve a Boomer/GenX ideal of Spider-Man and not allow GenZ/GenAlpha to have their own ideal Spider-Man, whatever that might look like (and it might look like USM, who knows)(much like how Bendis's Ultimate is probably the Millennial Spider-Man).
Keeping Spider-Man locked in the amber of his first 125 or so issues is preserving him for a previous generation, not a future one.