No worries.
Don't worry, I hear ya, and make no mistake, I'm not saying you have to feel any one way or the other about anything. All I was pointing out was that his "selling point"--in the conceptual sense-- was just being Superman and Lois' for real son and DC backing that. But the personal selling point that was created later was what resonated with you.
I can appreciate your feelings on the jarring nature of shift, but I also think that it's a fair tool for a writer play with when dealing with a pre-teen going into full on puberty. It's an especially apt tool when you're actually only dealing with the character as being adjacent to the titular character, Superman in this case. As I stated in my longer post about the imaginary story child of Superman, Bendis is deliberately putting us in Superman's shoes because he's made it clear that the character was growing quite accustom to and would've liked to keep his largely normal family with his largely normal son who didn't seem to have any needs more special than when he was growing up, and we the readers were right there with him. So, Jor-El throwing a wrench in the works and Jon coming back as not what his dad expected is making use of Clark as our main character and upscaling the already transformitive time of puberty with Superman's scale.
It's sound conceptually, and it doesn't break the selling point (him being Superman's son), but it does deliberately challenge the conventions that you and I as readers have grown comfortable with.
Funny enough, can't you easily imagine that's how Clark will feel? Can't you more accurately find yourself in his head because of this? Isn't that what writers strive to do with characters (especially the main character)? And isn't that a common criticism quite a few have cited when it comes to Superman? And for whatever it's worth, it seems to be confirmed that we'll be getting details and flashbacks of his journey. It's not the gradual shift, but it's something, and you can, again, imagine the torrent of emotion Clark will have.That would feel like a whiplash for readers
Again, it's fascinating that this is the reaction that you and other are having because it's uncovering and putting in words a very real truth about Clark: he gets comfortable with how things are set, and he'll hold onto that set pattern for as long as possible. Just look at the struggle it was for him to tell Lois. He made up dozens of excuses for why she couldn't know, but under scrutiny they fall flat. It was an emotional journey for him. So, it's not hard to imagine that when he's basically received his "happy ending" he doesn't want it to budge an inch, and we're the same because it was such a popular time in Superman comics. So this makes it a fascinating obstetrical that he can't out punch or even out think. Tomorrow is a foe that openly welcomes yet secretly dreads, and now we're right there with him.People love to say they love change,But many don't.Me in particular,am sceptic of changes.