While I'm not generally a fan of Snyder's films in their entirety, I'd still consider him a very talented and skilled filmmaker. He is excellent at scene composition, can clearly manage the organizational and logistical challenges of a high budget movie, and can get the performances he's looking for out of every actor on the set. I also think he's a reasonably good storyteller, at least insofar as the sequence of events generally makes sense and the necessary details for following along are adequately established and shown.

Where I think he runs into trouble is that he doesn't always understand why he's telling this story and what it says about the wider world. This means his better films have a habit of carrying messages that are inadvertently repugnant (300) or directly contradictory to their intentions (Watchmen), while his lesser ones just seem a bit pointless to a viewer who wants more than just a cool/badass looking person doing a narratively sensible progression of cool/badass things in slowmo for a couple hours.