It's the price for Sony agreeing to integrate Spidey on screen with the other Marvel characters, they gotta have him hanging out with somebody every time to get their money's worth. I like to contrast the MCU Spider-Man with the Ultimate comics Peter. MCU Spidey is super polite to Nick Fury hijacking his vacation and deflating his secret identity in front of others, but Ultimate Peter would yell at Nick Fury all the time and punched him in the face once he was so sick of him being involved in his life. I wish MCU Spidey showed some backbone, instead he's this golly gee kid most of the time.
Big problem I have with these movies is there's no real emotional heft to them at all, like you have a chance to do some real interesting stuff on screen with May finding out his identity at the end of Homecoming but the most they do with it is a joke to leave people on. I voiced my concerns online before Far From Home came out that it felt like they were gonna miss the boat on exploring what that meant (cause it was gonna be taking place after Endgame lol) and people assured me they'd do something with it and lo and behold they joked a little about it and their relationship was pretty much just business as usual. It was an opportunity to take some cues from the conversation issues from JMS' run. Kevin Feige said he wanted to bring May finding out the identity to the big screen for years, but it's like he just wanted to do it just to do it rather than explore any of it in a challenging way for viewers. It's gotta be fun popcorn fun and you can't lose sight of that, no sir!
The Spider-Verse animated movie made me feel more than either MCU Spidey's!