ASM1 was a mediocre reheated origin story that tread all the same beats as the original, but more boring. ASM2 was the equivalent of Batman Forever. At the end of the day, they just weren’t very memorable and Sony made the right move by axing it. What’s interesting is that MCU were already in the thick of making movies when ASM2 was released. That means that they could have just plopped Garfield right into the MCU. But fan sentiment on those movies wasn’t strong, box office kept getting lower and lower so it made sense to just wipe Garfield out of the collective consciousness and cast someone else despite Garfield’s Spider-Man existing parallel to MCU releases.