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In their defense a regrettable but sizeable amount of comic readers stopped caring about villains over hero vs hero shenanigans, it makes sense from a business standpoint to soften up edges and lean antagonists towards flawed protagonist archetypes if that seems to be the sort of dynamic customers look for while gushing about how neat it would be for Superman, Batman, Iron Man and so on to go dark.

And for Magneto and Loki so far it's more or less worked for their character reception compared to their original incarnations, though I'd argue Magneto was always going to have presence through being a central X-Men figure.

I know it seems like a shitty excuse, but this is one of the cases where it tracks. For example, aside from the highly questionable White Knight series, characters like Joker haven't been toned down but in fact made more vile because that seems to be what makes him profitable with comic fans and general audiences. Want classic villains and stories? Talk more frequently and fervently online and irl about them, you can't effectively vote with your wallet in this day and age but you can become a moderately effective shill to influence people yet to form an idea of superhero comics now that they're becoming widespread.
All the comictubers do it weekly around things they barely care about just to pay bills, so make a youtube shorts channel showing moments and feats where the villains shine in their villainy. But avoid speaking disparagingly about the current depictions like in OP, the average joe tends to tune out whenever he thinks someone biased is telling him what to think compared to someone experienced merely making a strong suggestion.