Concurring with all of you. If they really wanted Peter to have a friend/confidante who was in on his secret identity, they could've used Hobie Brown and set him up to become the Prowler later on in the MCU Spider-Man films. They could've brought in Clayton Cole from Learning to Crawl or Oliver Osnick and set up their costumed alter egos later, instead of ripping off Ganke and giving him Ned's name.