His excuse was that Lex was kind of that way back when he was first introduced in the Superman story. Kind of goofy and on edge, with hair and all that. Still a dumb decision though, Snyder is really getting it from all sides though. Guy just had a family tragedy and is now single handily being blamed for setting back the DCEU 8 to 10 years. Whoever mentioned he has carefree attitude towards the hero's backstories and histories was 100% correct. All that seems to matter to him looks and style.
So we really blaming Snyder for this?
Man of Steel was great
BVS ( Ultimate cut ) was great
JL , everything i found wrong can be attributed to Whedon's reshoots
Cutting out most of Aquamans story in Atlantis that led directly to his situation in the Aquaman solo, cutting out W. Dafoe as Vulko
Cutting out Flash saving Iris ( which i am now hearing even if they finish that scene for the blu ray it will be with a random girl, because they may want to recast Iris altogether smh)
Cutting out the majority of the Cyborg origin that Snyder shot for this film (which sucks because he's not promised a solo film and this film with the mother boxes being related to his beginnings was the best vehicle for that).
COMPLETELY botching Batman (after BvS , Batfleck was my favorite Bruce Wayne /Batman on screen, this movie knocked him down all the way in my book and i can't blame Ben for wanting to leave now)
Cutting out , slicing up the history lesson that Snyder shot ( most beautifully shot part of the film, and contained more Old Gods and Amazonian and Atlantean footage, possibly more Lantern footage).
Id say Snyder had taken the criticisms of the theatrical version of BvS to heart and was about to bring it all together with this film.
Eff Whedon...