What qualifications does Jim Lee have to say there's too much superhero content?

Popverse says the artist who's been head of DC for years now told a podcast there's too much superhero content on the market:

While speaking to the Masterplan podcast, Lee reminisces on his days as an early superhero fan in the '60s and '70s, when it was harder to keep up with comics and movie and TV adaptations were scarce at best. Though he doesn't call for any kind of reduction in superhero media, he does state his opinion that the large amount of available material makes fans more willing to dismiss material that creators truly cared about making.

"I think when you have fewer choices, you value each choice more. If you are starved of food, when you finally have a meal, it's gonna taste the best that it ever could. When you have a buffet of endless food, you eat something and go 'Meh, that's OK,' and you move onto the next thing. I think that's kind of where we're at with pop culture," Lee explains. "People put their hearts and souls into telling stories, whether it's a comic book, or a big feature film, and people just consume it and move onto the next thing, cause there's so much. In some ways there's almost too much, in my opinion."

It does seem like there has been something of a cultural shift in the attitude of fans about what they see as the waxing and waning of the relative quality of the superhero stories being told in film and TV in particular. From the perspective of someone who has covered the comic industry for nearly 20 years, that seems like the natural course of comic based media and even comic books themselves. We've all had times when we couldn't get enough of a certain character or story, and when we've felt disconnected from most of what we're reading.

Considering Lee dealt with only so much of theme himself, and yet was instrumental in its downfall, it's awfully rich of him to tell us there's too much in the ways of superherodom. In that case, why didn't he ever make a serious attempt to lend his art talents to something different?

And if we refer to modern "creators", if it's writers like Jason Aaron and Al Ewing, I wouldn't say writers like those dedicate themselves to storytelling of the talented kind. You also don't get "minor" characters by today's standards at DC in their own solo books, unless perhaps it's the SJW-pandering creations they concocted 2 decades ago, though most of those have largely vanished of late. I mention that because characters like the Silver Age Atom, Hawkman, Elongated Man and even Firestorm aren't put to use now by DC writers, if at all, and if there's any kind of moratorium imposed by editors after all the damage they caused in the past 2 decades beginning with Identity Crisis, that's wrong.

If there's any cultural shift with fandom, it's abandonment of the mainstream, because they've become the equivalent of sour milk. One can only wonder if Lee will go on to work on something non-superhero related, but after he's long proven he's a failure as a company manager, I wouldn't recommend hiring him for an indie project, no matter how talented he might still be as an artist. To be sure, there are comics fans who realize Lee's an alienating letdown, and it'd be best not to put money into his pockets anymore after he just stood by and allowed the DCU to be ruined by Dan DiDio.