These are allegedly the plots of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 4" and Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" (from before Sony went into panic mode after Garfield got fired). Would you prefer either one over what "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is shaping out?
SPIDER-MAN 4
>Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson are still dating. Peter is still selling pictures to the Daily Bugle and working as an assistant to Dr. Curt Connors, while MJ is still struggling with her acting career.
>J. Jonah Jameson retires and sells the Daily Bugle to businessman Adrian Toomes (John Malkovich). Peter meets Toomes' foster daughter, Felicia Hardy (Anne Hathaway), and they develop a relationship. Upon learning of this, MJ breaks up with Peter and moves to Los Angeles for a potential breakout role in a movie.
>Toomes turns out to be a criminal. Felicia's father was his partner and when he died in a heist gone wrong, Toomes adopted Felicia. Toomes has now built an armored wingsuit and plan to take over New York City as the Vulture, using the Daily Bugle to expose and undermine his enemies' operations and build up his own profile, while also publically denouncing the Vulture's crimes to maintain his identity a secret.
>Spider-Man is outmatched by the Vulture, but manages to figure out his weakness and reveals his secret identity to Felicia, using her to appeal to Toomes and make him stop fighting.
>In their fateful encounter, Toomes' identity is exposed and he refuses to go down quietly, and ends up causing his own death. Felicia blames Peter for causing Toomes' death and forcing her to be partially responsible as well. She then departs to live with relatives in Europe, swearing revenge on Spider-Man.
>Jameson buys the Daily Bugle back, having found retirement extremely boring.
>Peter realizes he really loves MJ and really fucked everything up and it sort of ends on a cliffhanger with him pondering all the shit that went down.