More Words, Deeper Hole

It's not just anti-government, there's a lot of more general "the world isn't ready" to it as well. Just generally people not being good enough to deserve a hero. Given the hamhandedness of Snyder's messiah imagery in particular, the takeaway is that there needs to be some kind of John the Baptist figure first.

The flip side of this is that the stories then say that the whole world is counting on these individual superfolks as shining examples, their only hope, etc., which completely breaks my suspension of disbelief in a way that flying doesn't. The entire real-world Internet is constantly celebrating hero memes, from courageous kittens, to firemen, to actual people who dress up as superheroes; the idea that "we" "need" the Man of Steel to look up to or we'll just feel hopelessly bad about ourselves forever is just weirdly out of touch with the human race.