Would you have preferred Snyder’s Justice League over what we got?

And he lost control of the decent which Superman gained.  Also, they went straight up and back down to the same place...  Destroying places is in the Snyder-verse Kryptonian genetic make-up.

Yes absolutely. Regardless of how I feel about his DC films, I would’ve preferred to see his cohesive trilogy. MOS and BVS feel like one big movie and JL would’ve made it feel like an epic but it ends up being like a Frankenstein’s monster, put together with all these different parts from different people.

Looks like the changes were to keep Darkseid from being the next thing for the League. So it looks to me like Justice League 2 will be vs. the Legion of Doom. I'm probably late to that realization compared to most here, as I just finally saw JL.

Probably a better idea to have something different than yet another tyrant intent on subjugating the Galaxy anyway. JMHO.

Batman and Superman realizing their mothers have the same name is not a character arc or realizing their identity or life purpose.

Well Batman's arc was clouded by the storyteller trying to play some poetic trick that fell on its face.

It would have been so much more clear and had so much more power if Supes had simply said "please, just save my mom"

Then Batsy would have snapped to and said "You have a mom?", and looked down and muttered to himself "The alien has a mom..."

He still could have done the montage of scenes with the grave, broken beads, etc.  And the message would have been more clear that he realized the Supes was more human than what his clouded Batbrain was making him out to be.

That was the whole point of "Martha", wasn't it?

But Snyder is a bad filmmaker.  Why would anyone want more of him?

But I am split on this...

Because the #1 problem with the film, in my opinion, is the 2 hour mandate.  If that weren't there, it would have been fixed by Whedon's reshoots.

And you giving Snyder and George Lucas way too much credit on artistic merits and storytelling reveals a lot about your own identity, don't it!?!
Do you need it spelled out further? 

Maybe I should reiterate. I'm not saying Batman doesn't have an arc. He clearly does. Being paranoid about Superman's presence and intentions because of all the power he has, and his own failure and feeling of being powerless while watching his parents die, but then watching Zod destroy his other family (Wayne Enterprise) in the beginning, then being trolled hard by Lex Luthor (we'll get to that later) into believing Superman is the enemy, and then realizing Superman is more human than he is because he actually has a human mother, hence, the Martha sequence. It's the penultimate moment in his arc because it's also the heel-face turn moment for Batman. Batman clearly has an arc.

BUT... as I've told you before, having an idea doesn't mean it's a good one, and the Martha moment is not a good idea. It could (should have) been executed better with Superman telling Batman to save his 'mom'/'mother' instead of saying Martha, but because Snyder has no grasp for subtlety and has to spell it out for the audience, we got Martha instead. But regardless of how it played out, it should never have gotten to that point in the story in the first place. The fight alone shouldn't have happened and there were dozens of opportunities for Superman to clearly subdue Batman and tell him what's really going on, but because Snyder is ashamed of superhero films (particularly Superman) he wanted to be edgy and cool and drew out the fight longer than it should have gone, and in the end, wrote themselves into a corner with the Martha sequence. The most glaring instance of this is when Superman recovers from the first Kryptonite grenade after Batman was punching him repeatedly, and instead of just telling Batman what's going on, he hurls him through the building. And to top it off, just to create dramatic tension and put Superman back in danger, Superman has to slowly crouch and slowly clench his fists while he conveniently waits for Batman to reload his grenade launcher. In the end, the whole thing just becomes a big contrivance.