You asked for an example, and I provided that. As I said, it is not the most cringeworthy example, but it becomes a problem when basically every interaction between two characters in a specific period follows the dynamics that I have described earlier.
And it would have been equally embarassing. As someone else has said earlier (Vordan?), Pa and Ma Kent talked a lot, but rarely said anything meaningful during their interactions with Clark.
Please, let's not bring real life historical figures into this. The complexity of people like Gandhi has zero to do with Superman and DC Comics. It's the equivalent of a Reductio ad Hitlerum (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum), just with good people. Let's keep it on a merely narrative level.
Do it. Or keep doing it, if you were already doing it. What's the problem? ;-)
I mean, no matter how much people are open to defend or criticize Jon or Clark or Tomasi or Jurgens - if you objectively think about it for one moment the entire Rebirth relaunch is not the worst Superman era of them all, nor the the best one. It won't become a milestone (well, nothing becomes a milestone anymore in mainstream superhero comic books, mostly because I guess that too few people care about them, and rightly so) and it has come to an end. So what? A lot of Superman eras have come an end. Bendis era will come to an end. Heck, Superman as a character will come to an end, maybe within my lifetime. On these forums I see people put herculean efforts into attempting to demonstrate that 17-year-old Jon is the worst thing ever happened to DC and Bendis is a bad writer/cannot write dialogues/doesn't respect Jon/doesn't respect Lois/doesn't respect minorities/his feet smell. Isn't it a bit, I don't know, pointless?