Green Lantern 2011 is bad, but it wasn't "Green Lantern needs to be put on ice for nearly 20 years" bad, not in a world where Aquaman and Ant-Man and The Wasp managed to get sequels
Hal being GL since 1996 in the DCU brings such interesting implications with it. A young Clark Kent is in Smallville on a farm and all of a sudden the Kent's turn on the TV and find out intergalactic police is on earth. They must've been SWEATING 🤣