Your review describes my feelings as well. Great movie; comic book fans should definitely go see it.
It has that "James Gunn movie" vibe to it, although not as funny as Guardians of the Galaxy or The Suicide Squad. I agree that it felt like the inclusion of some background characters was rushed -- e.g. we didn't really get a chance to care about the other people at The Daily Planet.
There was an article in Aftermath about how James Gunn has had a lot of success by making big movies out of smaller characters, and he seems to want to keep doing that (https://aftermath.site/james-gunn-suicide-squad-dc-comics ~~which is 404'ing right now, I'll come back to it later and see if their links have changed~~ link working now). Maybe that was part of the problem here. I don't really think it detracted much from the movie, though. Also, I don't want to dwell too much on the half-assed Cat Grant, since Superman himself was absolutely perfect.
It has the same very fast-paced editing style as Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which I thought was kind of jarring, but apparently I was alone in that since everyone else really liked GotG 3.