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I'll admit, I do keep forgetting that the JL Snydercut actually performed quite well and received mostly favourable (or at least favourable-ish) reviews... I found it to be only a marginal improvement over Whedon's version.

It does seem like a reasonable number of people actually liked it, though... but those peoples' devotion to the idea of Snyder's Justice League vision obviously hasn't pulled them all across into his 'Star Wars, but with more blood and boobs!' universe.

How good it was and how much attention it got are two very different things.

I thought ZSJL was markedly better. And critics agreed -- it was one of his best-rated films. 71% on RT vs. 40% for the Whedon version.

But it was a weird 4-hour film/miniseries thing that wouldn't have been much different than the Whedon version had he cut it to even 3 hours for a theatrical release. So it was kinda flawed conceptually/with storytelling from the beginning. He's just not a guy who likes to follow the creative brief.

Oddly enough I prefer the original cut of Justice League to the no fun allowed cut.

It's definitely an improvement over Whedon's cut overall, if only because its not forced to try and copy the Avenger's tone with footage that wasn't shot with that tone in mind. (the "I tried" in the opening might be one of my favorite creative barbs ever)

That said, there's so many overlong scenes in it, or stuff that's no longer edited in a way that works. Scenes that sit for so long (and not always in slow mo) that they don't make kinetic sense. There's honestly probably a pretty great 3 hour movie here, but we're stuck with one extreme or the other and neither make for a great film on their own.