Bolded, I was afraid of that. Well, I'm a Trade crowd anyway, my purchase has never affected DC sales, and it's pretty clear the past few years that I'm not exactly DC's target audience. What I want is... if they do want to make a shared universe then they need to be consistent about it, and if they don't wanna be consistent, then they shouldn't make a shared universe... but even then I still don't have enough disposable income to get all of them if they are a shared universe... so it's fine.
I guess if the Watchmen are just symbolic I can be fine with it... it's the impression that they're blaming the Watchmen that rubs me the wrong way...
When I see Watchmen I think Alan Moore, not Didio. So I still think that's still not... I get what you're explaining but I don't think they're using the right characters.
I don't know if there's an omnipotent character in DC that they can use that makes people think of Didio though.