Look, I love the Silver Age Superman stories. I love the Bronze age ones too, and JB's run...but you can't go back. Things don't need to be drastically changed, a little bit of an update here and there, but they shouldn't be re-wound.

The fact that this is happening is another nail on the coffin, that the people who matter to comics now are even beyond thier twenties. (I'm 23, and I've sworn off all marvel and DC in continuity comics.) The new Legion of Super-Heroes show is great, but its not causing kids to run to comics. And if it did, a married, father-figure Superman would soon chase them off.

What I loved about JB's version is that it was timeless. It didn't need to be updated. But DC seems deadset on bringing back the version of the character that chased off people to begin with.

"I'm hoping the Superman team realizes what a big mistake it was
getting rid of Jonathan Kent on Smallville and won't follow suit in order to be
more in line with the movies."

Its been foreshadowed in Justice League of America #0 that it will.

Personally, I'm coming to terms with the fact that "my" Superman, the John Byrne Superman, is gone.  I don't like it, but now I realize that the shoe is on the proverbial other foot.  Just as the fans of the pre-Crisis Superman cried "foul", so do I now.  I was 16 when the reboot took place.  I had been reading Superman since I was 5 (that I can remember), but it was magical for me to realize that I was in a place I never would thought I would be...on the ground floor of a Superman launch!  And where the Pre-Crisis Superman had a "loosly based" continuity (by this I mean that some stories from the 40s - 70s were "canonical" while others were "apocryphal" or regulated to "Earth-2"), from 1986 - 1995 thereabouts, the continuity was among the tightest in the industry, with each incoming creative team building on what came before.

Now, I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me that the powers-that-be at DC are almost pathologically doing everything they can to obviate the "Byrne years" and pretend that they never existed.  Anything that even reeks of the MOS reboot is vehemently denied.  Yet they wanted to have their cake and eat it two.  Its been said that Superman gets rebooted every 20 years, but it seems that the Man of Steel has been rebooted three times in the past ten:  "Return to Krypton", "Birthright", and finally "Infinigte Crisis".  Yet unlike MOS, which had a clearly defined and stated square one, these reboots are accepted then tossed at a whim.  "Yes, Clark had a career as Superboy, but we don't think he was in costume.  We don't know yet.  We'll get back to you," for example.  Kurt Buesik basically said as much at the "Superman Homepage". 

I miss the Byrne years wholeheartedly, but I still have my back issues and every so often I start rereading them from square one, in order.  It was an exciting time of comics for me that I will always treasure.  However, I'm finding it harder to enjoy Superman comics these days when one day he is friends with Batman in one issue and can barely stand the guy in another*

End of rant.  Sorry, but I just had to unload.

*A situation not limited to Superman.  In previous issues of JLA, Batman avowed how he respected and admired Plastic Man as an ally, and in a recent "Superman/Batman" he hardly knew him and could barely stand him.