Well...no.
The responsibility that Peter chose is protecting New York, protecting abstract strangers.
Yes he plays god at the end of the movie, but it's not for a "return to the status quo" it's to protect his universe from being torn apart at the cost of his relationships with the only loved ones he has left.
Also, it's not a return to the status quo because this trilogy has never had Peter Parker playing the lone Spider-man. It's had him supported during this entire superhero career, by Tony Stark, by Happy, by Ned, by MJ, by the other Spider-men. He's literally never had to fight alone.
It's a return to status quo in that it's a return to "traditional comic book Spider-man" but not so much for this specific version of the character who hasn't been presented as living that status quo before.
I agree. It took an actually interesting Peter Parker with a unique storyline and plot hooks, and reduced him to the out of date, and overused bog standard Spiderman that is so boring when Marvel comics reboots Spiderman they don't even bother going back that far because there are decades of character development.
Also we already did the poor, no friends saving strangers Spiderman in the MCU. Remember in Civil War when Tony goes to recreuit him and they talk about how Spiderman has been saving the little guy and looking out for New York this entire time? And how we skipped Uncle Ben dying and Peter being bitten? We skipped the boring shit and went straight into the cross overs and growth arcs.
No Way Home is a return to the Spiderman status quo of no friends, no family, no responsibilities, just poor and miserable. Page 1 of Issue 1 of all Spiderman comics before they start the actual plot.
Remember how cool it was to see Spiderman in the Civil War trailer? Like holy shit, there's Spiderman alongside Iron Man and Black Panther and Captain America and fighting Falcon and the Winter Soldier! Holy crap, that's just like the good comics!
Now No Way Home swings in like "No, no, none of that now. Spiderman is poor and lonely and pines after a girl named MJ and stops people from robbing sandwich stores. None of this other heroes and larger connected Marvel universe thing."
I would be surprised if Spiderman 4 has a flashback to the spider bite or Uncle Ben dying, just to fully spit in the face of Pater's MCU arc.