It's true that the general public doesn't care that much about suits, unless it's a real dud. But I'm not sure this is really what people are mostly complaining about...
The parameter I keep taking into account here is that we're in a context where CBMs don't have the same standing as they did a few years ago. I know we're used to saying that if a film is good, it can transcend fashions and everything, but I think the difference with the decade before is that there's now a real and conscient desire on the part of the public to see
“something new” within the genre.
And, in my eyes, it's precisely here that this little piece of promotion has probably missed the mark
(a bit).
Because even if we don't know much about the film, this kind of image are specifically used to communicate directions. And as it stands, whether you liked it or not, that one objectively promises nothing really new, artistically wise.
Negative or lukewarm opinions shouldn't always be caricatured as
naiveté or little battles between various factions of fans. The overall visual style of the costume
(and from the digital puke behind 
) is so evocative of what we've seen over the last 15 years that it's quite legitimate not to feel super-excited. Even more, in the context of a certain type of superhero movies fatigue...
Again, this doesn't mean the whole film is doomed, but at this moment in time, anybody is perfectly entitled to feel disappointed or not.
Anyway, just my two cents...
The lines are so minimal. I truly think we will see past them once he is moving about.
Yep, this is why I don't want to make too definitive judgment.
Although I also imagined something else for the suit, my only real grip with what we were shown is those specific backpack-style lines. Like I said above: this very MCUlike visual style
(that I never really care for) just feels so stale now that, for the moment, this first image fails to give me real excitement and, more precisely, immersion. It really gave the impression that Superman has the same costume designer as all the other superheroes seen in recent films, series, etc.
Ultimately, like you said, when we see more of the movie direction, with movement, cinematography, sound, etc., those impressions will perhaps be changed a bit.
But right now, it just feels to me more like a
"generic Hollywood Superman costume" than
"this director's live-action Superman", if that make sense...
Simply put
(and to reinforce my point), it lacks freshness.
Most people have been concentrating on the suit in that picture, I have been concentrating on David. He looks natural in the suit, as if wearing the suit fits him, that he was born to wear the suit. To me, Cavill never looked comfortable or natural in the suit, the suit seemed to overwhelm him as a person, and it hurt the performance.
David looks like he was always meant to wear the suit. He looks comfortable and real, as Superman. I think it will show in his performance. A good start, waiting to see more.
Even if we only have one slightly-controversial image of Corenswet in the role for now, I 100% agree on everything here.
