Here the supes are suppressed by the government, not a societal issue. They are presented as being accepted in the past, in a world without intervention

Not true. The government shut down the superhero program because of public pressure. The catalyst was the suicide jumper that Bob saved. But around that time there were a lot of incidents of property damage and lawsuits that made it too expensive for the government to have superheroes, because of what the people were doing.