I think that's giving Snyder too much credit, because whatever the intent, he's still doing it, y'know? If all of these things were introduced and roundly labelled ridiculous in the span of 20-pages it would be one thing, but we've had several years and multiple events about this dude and as a result he looms over most of Snyder's own latter day career. Even if he was originally intended as a pretty good dunk on Johns, by this point he's just as emblematic of Snyder's own worst impulses.

It's like Superboy-Prime going from a fanboy strawman to Geoff Johns' signature character/unintentional(?) avatar.