Basically, all of this. I will always support you dropping it like it's hot~
That's certainly your opinion!
Did you think Ben Reilly was going to be Spider-Man forever too? It's okay, I choose to forget about Ben Reilly all the time.Having Peter Parker not be the main 616 Spider-Man for more than 1 real time year had never happened before.
Proven to be incorrect, so will skip ahead...The thing to actually take away is that the story we have now is blatantly not ending on Slott's terms, and that alone invalidates Superior as a self-contained story. Slott didn't go in with a proper beginning-middle-end, he went in with a gimmick that he wanted to see how long he could sustain and build on. So judged on that, Superior is blatantly not a story building to its stated conclusion of Peter being the "better" Spider-Man, what it is is a story of how long Otto, and by extension Slott, can keep doing this.
That's just jumping to conclusions.Chris Gage co-wrote the closing issues of Superior, including the one which had the moral triumph that Peter had. If Gage is going in another direction, that means even he didn't believe in that.
The operative word you used above is "co-wrote". Cage took Slott's lead when co-writing on the original run, as it was still very much a plot that Slott had mapped out. It's a common way of how things work when a secondary writer is brought in to do some lifting. Gage now as a solo writer can and has been forging his own direction from there.
edit: just saw this was also covered by Snoop, GG
You highlighted Peter becoming a corporate guy, so I was talking about Parker Industries. But as for Spencer, he was merely following threads set up.A story that Nick Spencer told, and not Dan Slott.