No problem really.
And yes, the point about Superman Smashes is clear now, thanks.
One of the consequences of the "Superman missed the 80s train" theory I firmly believe in is that - as far as I can see - there isn't a lot of demand for hard sci-fi in Superman books because, well, hard sci-fi NEVER was in Superman book on a regular basis. And this means that there is a type of mature Superman story fans can hardly imagine or have a demand for. Basically there is no pre-existing model they can keep in mind. On the contrary, it is quite easier to think of a Batman story like David Fincher's Seven. As I have already said elsewhere, one of the reasons Reeves' Batman will be accepted by viewers and readers is that it somehow sounds already familiar thanks to a lot of pre-existing works.
There is nothing wrong with popular space operas like Star Wars or Star Trek, but the problem is that it is a type of mood and aesthetics which has become even too common and easy to see. You get Star Wars stuff everywhere. In a way, getting a Star Wars-like Superman would be more or less like getting an average, not particularly unique sci-fi story. Better than nothing, I guess, and I think that if and when we get a new Superman movie it will be strongly Star Wars-like/Star Trek-like (especially since JJ Abrams may be involved in it).
However, I think that getting more mature, riskier sci-fi in Superman books (without a 300 million budget at stake, so not as risky as a movie could be) would be incredibly beneficial for the character and the franchise. I mentioned Greg Egan because he is one of the most acclaimed of hard sci-fi (posthumanism, simulated reality...). I could mention other creators of "extreme" sci-fi, like Ballard or Liu Cixin. But another possible model could be anime works like Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, or Satoshi Kon's Paprika or Otomo's Akira. Or movies like Blade Runner or Annihilation or Ex Machina. 14-year-old me would take this stuff over current Superman books in a heartbeat.
But here's another problem, that is how you can introduce this type of themes in a book which has never really dealt with them. And how you can reconcile it with an aesthetics (headband Kryptonians, etc) which has been more or less unchanged for 80 years. And I actually have no good answer for this.
There's another major weakness in Superman stories which the Batman franchise doesn't suffer from, that is: Batman's stories are easier to update than Superman's. The first Joker story is a product of its time - the criminal mastermind, the signature on the victims, etc.. But it is not impossible to update it as a story about a terrorist or a serial killer who idolizes chaos. As a matter of fact, that's what they did.
However, Superman is sci-fi and sci-fi gets old very quickly. The "everything counts" mantra is a problem as far as Superman is concerned, because much of his history is so strictly tied to the period it was created in that putting it in a linear continuity would sound strange or fake. And at this point you have several choices - you entirely rewrite the continuity, or you update it - and these option are generally divisive.
Sometimes I think that the best solution for Superman wouldn't be pulling a Dark Knight Returns or Year One stunt, but rather creating Superman's version of Swamp Thing's Anatomy Lesson. That is, summarizing the entirety of Superman's history into a new paradigm on which you could build an entirely new mythology.