While I love Homecoming, Peter will get even less down to earth going forward. He'll have seen aliens, space, and continue to be funded by a billionaire. I can't imagine this Peter ever having money problems.
Nah man, Tony is gon die in IW
On topic though, I guess what bugs me about this comparison is how forced it feels. Both films may center on Spider-Man but the similarities are skin deep at best. The only way to really compare them uniquely in a way you couldn't with other movies is on the merits of how well they translate the character from one medium to another. That aside, the comparison is just incredibly unnecessary. It's like comparing Nolan's TDK trilogy with Schumacher's two Batman movies. They both draw from the same source material but they're trying to do fundamentally DIFFERENT things, such that they only thing really connecting them in terms of genre is the fact that the main character is a superhero.
Raimi's films stand apart from just about every modern day superhero movie because, at its core, it's not about the superhero or alter identity, it's how the existence of that superhero affects the very personal lives and interactions of its characters. It's a character drama first, escapist superhero movie second. But that itself has its own limitations, namely the fact that Raimi's movies don't really inhabit a bigger world in which Peter operates. The world Raimi constructed revolves solely around Peter and how he effects the world around him rather than Peter acting as a single player in a world that would happily continue to turn without him. Homecoming made a conscious decision to NOT do that, for better or worse, and that's what makes it a fundamentally different type of film. Raimi's Spider-man movies could easily be turned into a stage play (minus the spectacle and action) with how laser focused it is on Peter Parker's angst and drama. You can't really say that about any other comicbook movie.
And all this shit about Peter not having an arc in Homecoming is just that, it's bullshit. That's not to say it does any of that nearly as well as Spider-man 2, it doesn't, but Peter has a very clear and understandable arc. Another poster put it succinctly that the lesson he learns at the end can be encapsulated as "Stay in school, Peter." And while that may sound trite, it's actually a pretty fucking huge lesson for Peter to learn at this juncture in his life. It's a lesson Raimi's Spider-man takes for granted because Raimi never cared about what Peter's journey developing into Spider-man would even look like. Raimi's Spider-man gets bit and is instantly a perfect superhero, it's just the personal life that goes straight to hell. Watt's Spider-man can't really do either very well, which is the whole goddamn point! That's a side of the character we've never gotten to see, and there's nothing about that focus that's inherently better or worse than Raimi's decision to make Peter's love life the most important part of the character.
