I still haven't seen Aquaman yet

It's a copy, not an homage. To be an homage, the producer or director has to acknowledge it. Like when Patty Jenkins acknowledged that the scene of Diana blocking the bullets in the alley in Wonder Woman was an homage to the scene of Clark catching the bullet in the alley in Superman: The Movie.

It's similar to if you write a book report or research paper and you copy another author's idea. If you credit that author, then that's OK. But if you don't credit that author, then it's plagiarism.

MCU Dictator Kevin Feige has never acknowledge that elevator destruction scene as an homage to Superman II so that elevator destruction scene was a copy (not an homage) of the scene from Superman II.