A satire on South Park is not reality.
You suggested they don't include facts, for one. Apologies if that's not what "Presumably it would help to have facts on your side" meant, but that's how it read to me. Also, a deck isn't "one guy," it's usually the work of an entire team who has done extensive number crunching and research for weeks, sometimes months. It's not one person's fanfiction.
Marriage is highly traditional, so doubtful.
What it would take is for the team to show that a big stunt involving the marriage of Spider-Man, perhaps tied to a film or TV series, perhaps tied to a touring live event of some kind, perhaps tied to some other big company/general zeitgeist event, would make them measurable additional ancillary revenue that they would otherwise be leaving on the table if they didn't change the status.
And that could also be tied to demographics shifting such as their audiences is aging as Gen Z is not that interested in superheroes comic books and appealing to nostalgia may sell much better than trying to appeal to the mythical new reader than may never appear, or shifting to a more manga-inspired style of storytelling in which material change, not the illusion of change, occurs in the characters' lives as manga is currently dominating the marketplace and indeed is what helping comic book stores to stay afloat.
Again, I doubt monthly comic books will still exist in their current format within the next fifteen years, but I admit this one statement is only my opinion.
Yes, that's what a deck is.
The goal post shifting was this started as "Something that someone believes would be profitable generally fits their personal preference."
That's not true. People believe things are profitable that do not fit their personal preferences all the time. A track record of refusing to support things that would be profitable based solely on personal preference is a good way to get fired.
Doesn't change the fact that's how Wall Street and the world works and will continue to work as long as the United States has a market driven capitalist economy (simplifying, but still). *shrug*
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