So my take is, i have absolutely no reverence for Gwen Stacy-616, don't care for her, never have, even before OMD upped resentment towards her and editorial pushing her as pete's OTP, that was icky, but i was already indifferent. To me she holds an important place in SM history due to the way her death shaped and gave the tone of his stories going foward, call it fridging, call it whatever but i enjoy her as being just that. So that being said, i do not co-relate her to being equivalent to spider-gwen in any meaningful way apart from looks and name, and SG is a character i do in fact enjoy and want to see more of.
I think the movie is going to do right by a Gwiles romance, if it orients how the comics might go about doing it in the comics we'll be all the better for it, cause at the end of the day, romance or not, as long as the stories are fun and make me wanna keep seeing more of these characters i can take ''flawed continuity'', ''forced synergy'' or whatever.
I think the movie has a better chance of pushing gwen towards a better showing/presence in comics than a mostly well written solo book ever could(even if we'll need good writers to keep her there), thats just the nature of the beast, and adding romance just sells much better. I for one got way more tuned to SG's solos after SIAT and ITSV for example.