No you do not have to hand it to the racist, pedophile-enabling, treated it’s VFX team terribly movie.
Even if you can somehow excuse all of that, it’s still cargo-culting The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man. It’s Peter Parker is willing to trauma dump on a dying child, and even in the time before Gwen’s death Peter’s friend group apparently all hate each other. I still think the MCU gets the essence of Peter even though it’s a departure from the comics. That’s the nature of adaptations.
You can dislike the MCU all you want, you’re entitled to your opinion but you don’t need to make excuses for this tire fire.