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There is way too much attention on the author's politics, and not nearly enough on her lack of writing skills.
I promise you everyone will love a race-swaped character, if the story is well writen.
Case and point.
Miles Morales isn't race swapped, though. He's a different character. But I do agree with your larger point that Rowling sucks as a writer and as a person, and that race swaps don't matter if the characters are well written.
dude, for 70+ years spiderman was white
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is still white. Spider-Man (Miles Morales) has always been mixed race black and Puerto Rican. Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara) will be Mexican-Irish. Spider-Man (Hobie Brown) is black, although he frequently goes by Spider-Punk. Spider-Man (Takuya Yamashir) and Spider-Man (Yu Komori) are Japanese, and have been around since the 70s. They are different people who exist in universes with Peter Parker. There are also universes where Peter Parker is Peni Parker (Japanese), Pavitr Prabhakar (Indian), and then there are all the other Spider girls, Spider demons and Spider monsters, not to mention all the Spider-adjacent clones, offspring, and villains who posed as Spider-Man while Parker was incapacitated (which happened twice).
He still is. Peter Parker is still Spider-Man, Miles Morales is a completely different character who is also called Spider-Man.
There is more than one spiderman