Heh. Your references are Morrison. Who is demonstrably obsessed with meta taking primacy over characters or canon. Which has the exact same effect, in Clark's case, as Johns' Silver Age obsession, in that it puts Superman in a position where he no longer belongs, because the canon that created that position has changed. Though Johns' Silver Age obsession at least doesn't provoke Batgoddery....
This is why I really should be a Marvel fangirl. Spidey and the X-Men will always outsell Silver Surfer and the Fantastic Four, but Marvel is never going to pretend it makes sense for Spider-Man to defeat Galactus or for the public to embrace and valorize Cyclops the way they do Reed Richards. DC, on the other hand, really wants to sell that Clark has some special meaning to the DCU equivalent to his meaning to the real world, when he's been, for twenty years, merely one superhero among thousands and not the first or even the most powerful one by a wide margin, and that Batman's high sales and popularity somehow make up the incomprehensible difference in power level between him and Darkseid. It's supremely annoying and prevents organic storytelling.