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I don’t think this movie is a product of woke / sjw culture.
It was just a try to grab money over an unexpected success that was designed to be a finished story... at most, it's a product of the inability to bring new ideas to the table.
I think there was a little bit of an aspect of wokeness in that they wanted to destroy an icon that "toxic men" were flocking to, but I don't think that was the primary cause of this film failing.
On the laundry list of bad ideas, one stands out.

The studio knew Joker 2019 was very risky but it was also low budget, relatively speaking. It didn't just make a billion dollars. It made a billion dollars on a 65 million dollar budget.
That's why the first film was made with low oversight. It's an old strategy that has fallen out of favor in modern Hollywood. They used to greenlight a bunch of low budget movies from relatively unknown directors. If four out of five of them flop, not a huge loss as one in five succeeding can make real bank.
But just because a director/writer/actor has an unexpected hit does not mean you write them a blank check. You go from 65 million to 85 million, not 200 million.

