What really strikes me about this is that it's utterly symptomatic of the way that DC has spent actual decades unable to figure out that Captain Marvel is a children's character (to a greater extent than most superheroes) and ought to be written as such.

Additionally this really doesn't do much beyond add a layer of convolution to Black Adam's origin: Instead of simply being a proto-Captain Marvel who went bad, he's all bound up in the concept of the Marvel Family, and that instant conceptual hook gets diluted. Not to mention that taking away the idea that the Wizard straight up made a mistake in choosing his original champion is a small thing that nonetheless removes nuance and makes the Wizard even more two dimensional.

And since this reminds me, how the hell did we come out of Convergence without that Jeff Parker/Doc Shaner Shazam being made into an ongoing?