That would have been even worse. Then it would have been, "We completely changed and fucked this Character to rewrite the exact same thing from the 70s.
There's not a fucking chance in hell Max Landis actually did anything. I'm betting this is entirely because he doesn't 100% chug the koolaid. He may be a hipster faggot with rainbow colored hair, but he actually gives a shit about writing proper stories that aren't just virtue signalling crap.