Originally posted by Blair Wind
Only useful if he has people to lead.He has them and is better than Peter at utilizing them.
Externalizing the argument to include people that are not Peter and Steve.
Even if Peter doesn't get army resources (assumption made that they switched lives) we already know that Peter can create high-end technology from scraps. He'd still get webbing (or, as Digi puts them, Freedom Ropes) and tracers.
Acquire? Having other people who are smarter than him give him the tools to actually be effective?
This seals the deal for me - Steve is the suckiest hero of all time since he can't get anything done for himself. He has to rely on other people to be effective at anything. (mostly sarcastic).
You guys could focus on that fact that he's tactically smarter, would utilize more effective strategies to fight opponents, that his discipline would allow him to utilize the Spider-Man powerset in a different way - but all you seem to be able to focus on is that Steve can't do anything by himself. At all.
But that's were your wrong. You think Steve was born with the SSS? That it just bit him? He had to go "out" and make it happen. Just like everything else he's done. All that he gained or achieved is because he's done it on his "own."
No one is just going to give you all that power/resources to have unless there insane. That's why you have to have Steve mind set and character traits........unless you want to make a different Steve.
Does Steve has Longshot luck or a mutant power that makes everyone zombies to gain what he has gained? The guy does it on his own.
Only difference at times is Steve makes it look easy. You mention why don't we make a case for his discipline and skill to use his powers in a more effective way to fight in hand to hand combat. eh, I think that part just goes "without" saying.
As Peter during Civil War once stated he could learn about combat for 1000 years and he would never be as good as Steve.