Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Or himself...Peter's entire origin is about the fact that being brilliant and intelligent doesn't mean you are above making mistakes or dodging responsibility, or the fact that innocent people pay the price for that. Peter's past that beat in his character arc.
As a side-bar, this always irked me with adaptations that usually frame some mentor figure for Peter to aspire to as a father figure, so that they can hit the beat about power-and-responsibility by having the mentor turn evil or revealed to have feet of clay as with Molina's Ock in Spider-Man 2 (which is probably the start of Peter "shopping for substitute daddies" trope though that was only there for a few scenes at the start), then Curt Connors in TASM-1, then the PS4 game, and Tony Stark in the MCU.
616 Spider-Man comics never really did those kind of arcs because it was redundant, the character already has that guilt issue he's grappling with, you don't need to redo that all the time because it's boring, and it's stupid and hampers your character.
It's because of casting. Robert Downey Jr. is too big a star for someone as lowly as Tom Holland (a character actor with some independent movies and who, even in his MCU movies, has never carried a movie on his own) to be shown on-screen to challenge him. Tom Holland is fundamentally a character actor, i.e. someone who largely plays off other actors and bounces off them, rather than effectively lead a film entirely on his own presence.
If you look at all the choices made in the MCU movies, it's largely done to ensure that Holland Spidey almost always has a two-hander (i.e. scene with him and another actor) bouncing off one another character. Why does Spider-Man have an AI companion to interact with? Well the director Jon Watts said that he wanted to simulate the comics where Peter narrates on panel and he found this a way to do that (why he didn't use a voiceover, which literally does just that, is beyond me), but the actual answer is to ensure that Tom Holland is always in that "aw shucks whiny-explainy mode" of gushing and excitement before someone with more knowledge. It's a way to ensure the character is constantly in a state of immaturity. All the big character scenes in the MCU movies has Holland having on-screen interactions with established actors and character actors -- so it's Holland and RDJ, Holland and Michael Keaton, Holland and Gyllenhaal, Holland and Favreau, Holland and Samuel L. Jackson* -- and so on and so forth. Next movie will likely have Holland and JK Simmons (i.e. Whiplash II), Holland and Cumberbatch, and Holland and whoever the villain will be.
* (This isn't to you, Kaitou, but to anyone else don't @me that Fury in FFH is a Skrull...not important, what we see on screen is the actual Samuel L. Jackson browbeating the actual Tom Holland).