I get what you say, in broader terms. We often talk about what is canon and what is not, what is "in character" and what is not. So we, too, can be agents of the status quo as in sharing a frame of reference, or at least a set of shared/acknowledged/agreed upon viewpoints about oft-beloved narrative and fictional characters.

That said, however...do no take offense, but I believe your statement is off the mark, and that dismissive tone does not help to corroborate your point.

Simply put, I doubt people such as Jane, Gnarli and Tommy, who all have a rich and positively progressive posting history in this community, are voicing their legitimate criticism as a way to enforce conformism.

Change is good, but change for the sake of change without substance and substainability to back it up have already been one of the big issues in the comics industry for decades.

It's frankly a bit upsetting to see the creators of this new generation falling back to the old tricks, including fanning the flames of controversy, or seeking that Grand Statement that will make them the shepherds of the next flock of yes-persons. Sometimes, it's just fragility. Others wrote in better detail than I ever could here about what's happening to Tom King, who was probably fagocitated both by personal problems and a sudden, perhaps too fast rise to prominence.

A final note - being Italian, like Jane, and especially in the times we've been living in recently, I'm always wary when someone starts advocating against "being average" and "mediocrity" in such an oblique way. Nurturing a feeling of superiority helps to win the complacence of the silent majority: as in, there's always Others to make us feel good, and as such we won't regret someone stomping down on them, until we're the ones under Orwell's boots.

If there's a thing I expect of this community, is to keep our heads high and reject that kind of mindset.