I actually find myself more interested in the variant takes on the classic heroes these days. I mean, I know Peter Parker Spiderman, I know what plots they will do with him very well. Why? Because they've been doing them for 50 fucking years. Ben will die, making him feel sad, Aunt May will be a point of threat for his identity, and frequent hostage to motivate him to punch harder at the climax. Rotating roster of love interests that will never actually pan out for very long, because conflicting obligations and double life. Yes yes, saw that, read the book, next?
At least with the variations, they have room to come up with SOME new stuff, though they often still toss them against the old enemies. Like I'm sure making Miles Morales fight OG Green Goblin gets somebody's rocks off, but I'd rather he had his own Villain's Gallery of goons to fight, with their own motivations and stuff.
Plus I enjoy taking a character that is basically only known for being dead, and instead giving her the Random Power Up moment, so that she can go off and do cool/exciting things. Sort of like how it seems they've been working this FF 7 Remake, where the heroes, when looking at the OG plot are like "nah, fuck that, we're gonna let Aerith, be a badass and do cool shit, not just die to be tragic."