Yes and no.
I read several of the collections of the Golden Age stories and I really liked the whole maverick aspect. But there's a point where, no matter how good the good guy is and how bad the bad guys are, you just get sick and tired of seeing a guy who knows nobody can stop him stomping on people he knows have no chance against him and you just want someone to royally kick his @$$ (sort of like watching a Stephen Seagal movie).
Interestingly enough, if you could just get people today to accept that version of Superman (which you wouldn't), he would be a very popular character to do a movie or show about because he's basically a Wish Fulfillment fantasy as opposed to the Silver Age Superman who is the opposite of that, the guy who is supremely powerful but puts absolute limits on himself. On the surface, the Golden Age Superman, whether set in the 1930s or today, should be a big hit because people generally love the characters with lack of control who do what they want. But for most people that's not the image of Superman they have set in their minds.