If a company gives a director 250 million and leaves them alone that is dumb. You don't give people that type of money and not have a say.
Then don't sell your product as director driven.
I "bought" in to the dceu as being director driven films. That's what sold me on the universe and made me interested.
If it was really director driven the ultimate cut of BvS would have been in theatres and we would have got a different SS.
We can't say if SS would have been better,I have a hard time believing it wouldn't be,but the universal consensus was the ultimate cut of bvs was a better film.
And now justice league who knows. It's not the original vision of the director that's for certain.
If I wanted to watch a factory churn out cookie cutter formulas there's already another studio doing that.
I wouldn't want to watch a Nolan film where some studio exec is in the editing bay telling him yeah this is cool but can you please remove 30 minutes of your film we need to maximize the number of times a day it can play in theatres. fukk that.