I'm genuinely not sure why anyone would think a return to DCEU is a good move?

The general audience i.e. where they make money, would be SO confused. And in case the Snyder-boyardees don't remember, DCEU movies more than underperformed post-COVID.

Why would audiences want a return when they're already getting used to the new cast, new world, new direction??? They lost interest in the old direction!

Every movie post-COVID has barely made a profit except Aquaman 2.

Birds of Prey was criminally underseen, but was when COVID started to hit the US and stay at home orders began/people started to avoid large crowded spaces. Yet it still managed to make a modest $100 million, after marketing and such probably around $50 million. Without COVID, it'd probably have picked up steam a little bit in week 2 and 3 and made around $75 million more.

Wonder Woman 1984 and The Suicide Squad both didn't turn a profit, but likely would have in a normal release. But Wonder Woman 1984 would have been farrr less profitable than the first and it likely wouldn't have even been close.

The Suicide Squad probably would have made a lot more money, but also it's James Gunn and more or less part of the DCU.

Black Adam is a travesty on basically every level besides Pierce Brosnan and Aldis Hodge. After marketing it made MAYBE $1 or $2 million.

Shazam FOG is a movie that can't justify its own existence within its own narrative, and lost money.

The Flash is a compromised mess of a movie that's barely a movie, you've got an extremely volatile lead. All said and done, if it made a profit it was no more than $5 million total.

Blue Beetle needed a second draft and probably 4 more months of production time, or should have been a 6 episode mini. Also, released during strikes (and a hurricane), obscure character, etc. Decent movie, same as above, profits would have been sub $5 million after marketing. Probably no profit at all. Glad Xolo gets to keep playing him though. Electric energy from him. Wish the third act hadn't been weird.

Aside: Kickstart My Heart? Not even a latin-fusion cover of Kickstart My Heart? Makes no sense. The licensed soundtrack for that movie is a bunch of FIRE South American/Latin American artists, but you got Motley Crue for your giant bug fight? Young people aren't really into Motley Crue like that. They couldn't have gotten a latinx/south american band or band with latinx/south american frontman?

They couldn't have paid Chicano Batman to do a cover of something? A song from Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against the Machine? License a Rage Against the Machine song, even? The Mars Volta? one of the individual two members of The Mars Volta? Deftones? Soulfly? Vista Chino/John Garcia? SANTANA? Los Lobos? Glassjaw? Los Lonely Boys? Sepultura? Voodoo Glowskulls? Olivia Rodrigo? Coheed and Cambria? A Coheed cover of Kickstart my Heart would have been NUTS.

Even P.O.D. or Pierce the Veil would have been good!

And that's just the ones off the top of my head!!! Music supervisor for the movie made a very weird choice. All out of Love in the post-credits is fine, It's for a 80's gag for Kord.