I understand, I think most people are like that, which is why I'm not overly huge fan of the practice of creating legacy heroes, as it tends to partition the fanbase and creates for a certain level of toxicity.
I only feel this way because DC has so many characters, but so little room to fit them into titles, so it creates this reasonable fear amongst DC fans that their favourtie will get relegated to obscurity....because more often or not they are....which leads to infighting in the fanbase.
This is why I think fans of Hal or any fans of established characters become defensive or as you say "insecure" about their favourite, because they know what fate awaits if they lose the headliner.
I should give Jessica Cruz's Green Lanterns run a read sometime. I'm sure I would like the character, I like to crunch sales numbers for fun, so she definitely has sales potential, but at present she's sort of a unkown entity for me.