The whole "old goblin vs modern goblin" thing is weird to me, on one hand I get how characters escalating into way more evil, virtuous, jobbery, whatever over time is annoying, though with Norman it's a case where I don't mind

With his original character, there's only really two directions to lean into. Either you make him a more truly insane Jeckyl/Hyde character like the Raimi version, or you make him a sane but evil/sadistic schemer which is what we got in the comics for the most part where yes, the "goblin persona" is sometimes presented as like a voice in his head but it's kind of irrelevant since Norman still is a huge prick anyway by himself

Personally, I don't mind it because he's really good at being "that guy", but also because we already have plenty of Jeckyl/Hyde villains, The Lizard being one of Spidey's other "main iconic foes" having that for his entire schtick kind of is enough for me, because the whole routine gets old fast, you can only do the "I was going through an insane transformationI didn't mean it" so many times esp considering it's already a tale we all have known forever to begin with