I thought that was great. He was on his own and had to be an adult, but he was still in school and learning. Best of both worlds.And when I was a kid, my first introduction to Peter was through the 90's show where he was in college. Totally worked.
They went a bit heavy on Kingpin and "Neogenics" and there were some character decisions that didn't work for me, but overall it was great. We even got a really nice adaption of Secret War out of it and what was basically the prototype for Spiderverse.