You keep viewing this as a zero-sum game when it isn't.
Say we're kids again and you have a Superman toy and I have a Superman toy. When you want to play with your Superman you want him to protect Metropolis from Lex Luthor and you stick to all the rules you know in the comics. When I play with my Superman, I decide he's actually best friends with Lex Luthor and they solve crimes together while they fly around space in the Millennium Falcon.
I haven't changed your Superman at all. Your Superman still exists. I'm just choosing to do something different with mine. You don't want to play with me, fine! But I haven't actually impacted your ability to play with your Superman as you see fit. Enjoy it!
I'd watch a show called Winter Falcon and Furry Nick.
We're not talking about something that we can make up our own stories about, though. We don't have the choice to shape things to our tastes like a kid with a toy and an imagination. We rely on others to bring us new stories. Our enjoyment depends on those new stories being good and what we want to see. If they aren't, we can't just make our own (fan fiction, not withstanding). That's why we complain online.
Remember how you amusingly declared "NOT MY WICKET" after watching the Ewoks movies last month? I know that that was a joke, but, surely, there was enough of a grain of truth in there that you might understand why someone might feel "not my Superman." Also, you once said that The Rise of Skywalker "ruined" The Last Jedi for you. How could it ruin it, though, if TLJ still exists? If you don't like TRoS, why not just make up your own story to use in its place, like in your analogy?
The fact is that, to us spoiled adults, making up our own stories isn't very satisfying and it's not enough to simply enjoy what we already have. We want to enjoy what we've gotten and get new content that's similar to it. The idea that we should just be happy with what we have if we don't like the direction that the new stuff is going in is a bit nonsensical and dismissive. If your team has won the Cup in the past, should you be happy with it and not critical of the direction that the team is going in now because, no matter how bad they are, you'll always have that Cup win? No, of course not. You long for the feeling of winning the Cup again, much like how you long to re-live being a kid watching a favorite character on screen.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a character to remain consistent. It's not racist just because it's a white character and one needn't defend the change just to avoid feeling so. I don't want established black characters (ex. Axel Foley, Apollo Creed, Agent J from MiB, Lando, Shaft) changed to white, either. To suggest that that should be allowed because it wouldn't change the original movies, which people would still always be able to enjoy, would look like a bad argument in that context, so I don't how it can be any better in the reverse context.
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