Very likely. It takes us away from the street-level focus that all superhero comics used to have at one point. When you no longer have too many ''normal'' people around, the lives and concerns of normal people, and their world, cease to be a focus in the plot.
But I can't but help feel there is a political aspect to it as well. Over the past decade, there has been a certain growing permissiveness towards crime in the US, and elsewhere in the Western world, and that's reflected in the media as well. I seem to recall an interview by a DC writer (a pretty major one, but don't remember who) where he talks about doing a Batman story where Batman doesn't throw a punch because ''we can't afford these values in the age of Trump''.
On the CW's The Flash, talking criminals down rather than taking them down by force virtually became a meme. And there's an episode in Season 7 where Barry, after convincing a bank robber (who's criminal plot almost caused multiple casualties) to surrender, offers to talk to the governor to commute her sentence and get her a job in the governor's office!
Let's not forget that moment in Zack Snyder's Justice League, where Vic, after becoming Cyborg, briefly considers using his powers to pull off a Robin Hood act and transfer money from a bank to a woman he runs into on the street.