People were fine with both Wonder Woman and Alita. People have been fine with Mad Max and Hunger Games. People have been okay with women in “”””male dominated”””” genres since Alien.
People, however, have never liked Carol Danvers because she’s either an unlikable fascist or an unlikable bore, with the most generic powerset and costume introduced yet to the MCU, so while I hoped Marvel Studios pulled it off and made a great movie, it’s not terribly surprising that like so many authors before them, they failed at making anyone give a shit about Carol. She’s just a bad character pushed into fabricated relevance by Marvel needing their own Wonder Woman rather than embracing their own great female characters like She-Hulk, and not having access to Sue Storm, Jean Grey or Rogue.
Captain Marvel is just a dull character. Why are some trying to argue that her movie can’t possibly be dull?