https://screenrant.com/spiderman-no-way-home-tony-stark-sacrifice-peter-tragic/
Tony Stark's sacrifice is one of the MCU's saddest moments. Shockingly, No Way Home and Spider-Man's post-Endgame arc, in general, make it worse.
Interesting take but I 100% disagree -- Tony's sacrifice meant a lot to trillions across the universe. Also, Tony did what he did for Morgan as much as Peter.
But mainly I'm coming around to view of fans who characterize the MCU Spider-Man trilogy as an extended origin story.
I'm not a huge comic fan, it's my understanding that Spider-Man is most "himself" when he's struggling with working-class, street-level problems while still trying to save everyone, including and especially his villains.
So now we have that Spider-Man, living on his own with a costume he sewed himself, far removed from all the Stark Industries resources that made him more like "the next Iron Man."
They told the Spider-Man story almost in reverse order. They more or less had to because of how much of the MCU had been unfolded before they got the rights to the the character.
In the comic, Peter starts as a local hero, on his own, and no one knows who he is. He eventually becomes Tony Stark's protege and joins the Avengers, and gets Stark-tech spider-armor. Then he reveals his identity to the world and fights in the Civil War, at which point Aunt May dies. To save her, he uses magic to drastically alter the universe, saving Aunt May's life and making his identity secret again, but he's still a well-known hero, and Peter Parker ends up a famous tech billionaire.
In the MCU he starts in the Civil War, becomes Stark's protege, with the cool armor, and has his identity revealed. Aunt May dies, after which his identity is magically hidden, and he ends up on his own as a local hero.
Well, the thing is that giving Parker a mentor/sponsor relationship with someone rich and fabulous actually undid a lot of the basic Spiderman origin story, and the sympathy that came with being a kid with no money or support trying to be a superhero. In the comics, and in every other version of Spiderman, Parker had to struggle over every little thing from the get-go, and Stark acting as a fairy godfather made things a bit too easy. So they timed the end of the relationship pretty carefully, so things would never be too easy for Parker.
I think they're going to do something similar with Kate Bishop, the new Hawkeye. She grew up rich but now her mother's cut her off and the family business is probably going bust, she's going to find herself broke and on her own. And she can't stay with the Bartons very long, either.